Species Macroglossum tenebrosa (T.P. Lucas, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macroglossa tenebrosa Lucas, T.P. 1891. Butterflies and Moths. Descriptions of two new Butterflies and nine new Sphingidae or Hawk moths found in Queensland. Published privately by the author. 1-4 pp.
• Macroglossa splendens Butler, A.G. 1892. Macroglossum vox, Newman. In Entomological notes, captures, etc. The Entomologist 25(344): 20.

 

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. [135]
• 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. [199]

 

Introduction

Macroglossum nox erroneously treated as a synonym of M. tenebrosa by Bridges (1993).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

North-eastern QLD from Torres Strait Islands to Yeppoon; E Indonesia, Solomon Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Bridges, C.A. 1993. Catalogue of the Family-group, Genus-group and Species-group Names of the Sphingidae of the World. Introduction, Parts 1–12, Appendix 1–3. Urbana : C.A. Bridges. [14]

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. [199]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2024	Macroglossinae	19-Sep-2020	MODIFIED
07-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
		24-Sep-2012	MODIFIED