Species Macroglossum heliophila (Boisduval, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macroglossa heliophila Boisduval, J.B.A.D.de in Boisduval, J.B.A.D.de & Guenée, A. 1875. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Species Géneral des Lépidoptères Hétéocères. Tome 1. Sphingides, Sésiides, Castnides. Paris. ii+iv + 568 + 6, pls 1-11 [354].
• Macroglossa fringilla Boisduval, J.B.A.D.de in Boisduval, J.B.A.D.de & Guenée, A. 1875. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Species Géneral des Lépidoptères Hétéocères. Tome 1. Sphingides, Sésiides, Castnides. Paris. ii+iv + 568 + 6, pls 1-11 [352].
• Macroglossum nigrifasciata Butler, A.G. 1880. On a collection of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Marlborough Province, New Zealand. Cistula Entomologica 2: 541-562.
• Macroglossa kanita Swinhoe, C. 1892. Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 1. Sphinges and Bombyces. Oxford : Claredon Press viii+324 pp., 8 pls. [4].
• Macroglossa loochooana Rothschild, L.W. 1894. Notes on Sphingidae, with descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae 1: 65-98 pls 5-7 [67].
• Macroglossum melas Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67.
• Macroglossum queenslandi Clark, B.P. 1927. Descriptions of twelve new Sphingidae and remarks upon two other species. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, Boston 9: 99-109 [108].
• Macroglossum heliophila divergens Walker, F. 1856. Sphingidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 8: 1-271.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kitching, I.J. & Cadiou, J.-M. 2000. Hawkmoths of the World, an annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). London; Ithaca & London : The Natural History Museum, Comstock Publishing Associates vii +226 pp. [133] (for Macroglossum heliophila divergens Walker, 1856)

General References

Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [269] (Note #505: Macroglossum heliophila (Boisduval, [1875]) and M. fringilla (Boisduval [1875] were published simultaneously. M. heliophila (Boisduval) was given priority by Rothschild and Jordan (1903) as first revisers)

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