Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory

Creating a taxonomic e-science

Literature

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L. T. Wasserthal1996Of hawkmoth species with long "tongues". Tropical biocenoses
L. T. Wasserthal1997The pollinators of the Malagasy Star Orchids Angraecum sesquipedale, A. sororium and A. compactum and the evolution of extremely long spurs by pollinator shift
L. T. Wasserthal1998Deep flowers for long tongues
L. T. Wasserthal2013Evolution of long-tongued hawkmoths and pollination of long-spurred Angraecum orchids
L. T. Wasserthal2015Angraecum-Orchideen und langrüsslige Schwärmer, Bestäubung und Evolution
E. Staller2013Long-spurred orchids and their pollinators - an investigation into multiple hypotheses to explain some of Darwin's contrivances
A. E. Sallema, Selemani S. S.2022Diversity and abundance of a pollinator group: hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in forests and surrounding farmlands, East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
L. A. Nilsson1998Deep flowers for long tongues
C. Netz, Renner S. S.2017Long-spurred Angraecum orchids and long-tongued sphingid moths on Madagascar: a time frame for Darwin’s predicted Xanthopan/Angraecum coevolution
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M. G. Balducci, Martins, D. J., Johnson, S. D.2019Pollination of the long-spurred African terrestrial orchid Bonatea steudneri by long-tongued hawkmoths, notably Xanthopan morganii
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