Species Theretra latreillii (W.S. Macleay, 1826)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphinx latreillii W.S. Macleay, 1826.
• Chaerocampa leucasii Moore, F. in Horsfield, T. & Moore, F. 1858. A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. London : Wm. H. Allen and Co. Vol. 1 v 278 iv 11 pp. 18 pls. [issued 1858, dated 1857] [misspel.].
• Chaerocampa comminuens 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] [sic].
• Chaerocampa deserta Butler, A.G. 1876. Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 9(3): 511-644, pls 90-94 [638] [sic].
• Chaerocampa walduckii Butler, A.G. 1877. [Details not found]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877 [398] [sic].
• Chaerocampa amara 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. [21] [sic].
• Sphinx latreillei Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67 [misspel.].
• Theretra cinerea Haines in Dowling & Haines, 1963.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kimberley region of Western Australia, Top End of the Northern Territory east to Queensland where it is found through the Torres Strait islands, through much of Cape York Peninsula, along the east coast of Queensland and along the east coast of New South Wales south to Wollongong. Hammond Island, Torres Strait (nominate subspecies reported as "common" by Lane & Moulds (2015))

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2024	Macroglossinae	10-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
11-Dec-2014	SPHINGIDAE	20-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
07-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)