Species Hippotion johanna Kirby, 1877

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chaerocampa johanna Kirby, W.F. 1877. Notes on the new or rare Sphingidae in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, and remarks on Mr Butler's recent revision of the family. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877(3): 233-244 [241] [sic].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NMI, Brisbane, QLD.
• Panacra maculiventris Miskin, W.H. 1891. A revision of the Australian Sphingidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 8: 1-28 [unavailable, nomen nudum].

 

Generic Combinations

• Panacra joanna (Kirby, 1877) [species name misspelled]. —
  Miskin, W.H. 1891. A revision of the Australian Sphingidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 8: 1-28 [9] (new combination)
• Miavia johanna (Kirby, 1877). —
  Kirby, W.F. in Allen, W.H. 1897. A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera. Allen's Naturalist's Library. London : W.H. Allen Vol. 4. [25, pl. 100] (new combination)
• Hippotion brennus johanna (Kirby, 1877). —
  Gehlen, B. 1926. Neue Sphingiden. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 20: 172-176, 248-252 [176] (new combination)
• Hippotion johanna (Kirby, 1877). —
  Darge, P. 1975. Note sur Hippotion brennus (Lep., Sphingidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 80(5-6): 179-180 [179] (new combination)
• Theretra johanna (Kirby, 1877). —
  Kirby, W.F. 1892. A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (moths). Sphinges and Bombyces. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 1 xii 951 pp. [659] (new combination)

 

Introduction

Widely treated as a form of H. brennus following Rothschild and Jordan (1903). Moulds et al. (2020) formalised the treatment of H. johanna as a separate species, following Darge (1975) and Common (1990). See Moulds et al. (2020) for further details

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern QLD south from Iron Range to Brunswick Heads, NSW; Papua New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls.

Darge, P. 1975. Note sur Hippotion brennus (Lep., Sphingidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 80(5-6): 179-180 [179]

Moulds, M.S., Tuttle, J.P. & Lane, D.A. 2020. Hawkmoths of Australia: Identification, Biology and Distribution. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 13 pp. i-x, 1-414. [138]

Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67 [758]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Macroglossinae	16-Sep-2020	ADDED