Species Macroglossum errans Walker, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macroglossa errans Walker, F. 1856. Sphingidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 8: 1-271.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ("From Mr. Strange's collection." Possibly in NHML), Australia.
• Rhamphoschisma scottiarum Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heterocera. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2).
• Macroglossa belinda Pagenstecher, A.F. 1900. Die Lepidopteren Fauna des Bismarck-Archipels. Mit Berückstichtigung der thiergeographischen und biologischen Verhältnisse systematisch dargestellt. Erster Theil: die Tagfalter. Zoologica (New York) 29: 1-160 pp. 2 pls [91].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [176]

 

Generic Combinations

• Macroglossum hirundo errans Walker, 1856. —
  Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67 [649]

 

Introduction

Previously treated as a synonym or subspecies of M. hirundo, Moulds et al. (2020) present molecular and morphological evidence for treating M. errans as a separate species, with M. hirundo no longer recorded from Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Northern half of NT south to Tennant Creek, and east coast from Torres Strait Islands, QLD to Wollongong, NSW, also Norfolk Island, Tasman Sea; West Papua, Solomon Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

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. [176]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Macroglossinae	17-Sep-2020	ADDED