Species Macroglossum vacillans (Walker, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macroglossa vacillans Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31: 1-321 [Part 31 dated 1864 but published 11 February, 1865] [27] [see Moulds (1985) for further details on type specimen].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀ (not ♂ as stated in original description), Timor.

  Secondary source:

   Moulds, M.S. 1985. A review of the Australian hawk moths of the genus Macroglossum Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 12(5): 81-105 [84].
• Macroglossa approximata Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31: 1-321 [Part 31 dated 1864 but published 11 February, 1865] [27-28] [non Miskin, 1891].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH no reg. no. given ♀, North Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Moulds, M.S. 1985. A review of the Australian hawk moths of the genus Macroglossum Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 12(5): 81-105 [84].
• Macroglossa pseudogyrans Rothschild, L.W. 1894. Notes on Sphingidae, with descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae 1: 65-98 pls 5-7 [68].
• Macroglossa similis Rothschild, L.W. 1894. Notes on Sphingidae, with descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae 1: 65-98 pls 5-7 [68].
• Macroglossum backi Eitschberger, U. 2009. Macroglossum backi spec. nov., eine neue Schwarmerart aus Neuguinea (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 63: 153-156 [153].

 

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. [201]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Australia from Broome, WA, to eastern QLD south to Alice Springs in NT and to Brisbane in QLD; E Indonesia, New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & 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. [201]

 

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)