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Genus: | Micracosmeryx Mell, 1922 |
Species: | M. chaochauensis |
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Micracosmeryx chaochauensis | |
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Micracosmeryx is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae first described by Rudolf Mell in 1922. Its only species, Micracosmeryx chaochauensis, described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1922, is known from southern China and northern Vietnam. [2]
Paonias myops, the small-eyed sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by James Edward Smith in 1797.
Isognathus rimosa, the rimosus sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1865.
Aellopos titan, the Titan sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777.
Eumorpha intermedia, the intermediate sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1917. It lives in the US states of North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and southern Texas.
Proserpinus clarkiae, or Clark's sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852. It is known from British Columbia and Washington south through California to Baja California, east to Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. The habitat consists of oak woodland and pine-oak woodland in foothills.
Amphion floridensis, the Nessus sphinx, is a day-flying moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was described by Pieter Cramer in 1777, and renamed in 1920. It is the only member of the genus Amphion erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It lives throughout the eastern United States and Canada and occasionally south into Mexico, and is one of the more commonly encountered day-flying moths in the region, easily recognized by the two bright-yellow bands across the abdomen.
Manduca violaalba is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1922.
Barbourion is monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1934. Its only species, Barbourion lemaii, described by Eugène Le Moult in 1934, is known from Yunnan in south-western China, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam.
Acosmerycoides is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae described by Rudolf Mell in 1922. Its only species, Acosmerycoides harterti or Hartert's hawkmoth, was described by Walter Rothschild in 1895.
Marumba cristata, the common striped hawkmoth, is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from the Himalaya, through Nepal and north-east India, Myanmar, southern and central China to western Malaysia (Sundaland).
Acosmeryx pseudomissa is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rudolf Mell in 1922. It is known from Thailand, southern China and Vietnam.
Dahira yunnanfuana is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1925. It is found along the south-eastern slopes of the Himalaya, from Nepal through northern Myanmar to central Yunnan and Sichuan in China.
Langia zenzeroides, the apple hawkmoth, is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1872.
Smerinthus szechuanus, the Sichuan eyed hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1938. It is known from Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan in China.
Polyptychus trilineatus, the common crenulate hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from large parts of South Asia.
Antinephele camerounensis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1937 and is found from Gabon to the Central African Republic, Uganda and Kenya.
Rhagastis castor is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856.
Xylophanes macasensis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1922. It is found from Ecuador south into Bolivia.
Ambulyx kuangtungensis is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Rudolf Mell in 1922.
Ambulyx sericeipennis, the common gliding hawkmoth, is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. It is found from northern Pakistan and northern India eastwards across Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to central and southern China and Taiwan.