Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory

Creating a taxonomic e-science

Literature

AuthorsYearTitlesort descending
J. Arditti, Elliott, J., Kitching, I. J., Wasserthal, L. T.2012'Good Heavens what insect can suck it' - Charles Darwin, Angraecum sesquipedale and Xanthopan morganii praedicta
X. Li, Hamilton, C. A., St Laurent, R. A., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Markee, A., Haxaire, J., Rougerie, R., Kitching, I. J., Kawahara, A. Y.2022A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths
J. S. Irungbam, Kitching I. J.2014A first record of Clanis hyperion Cadiou & Kitching, 1990 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Bhutan, and a preliminary checklist of the hawkmoths of Mendrelgang, Bhutan
I. J. Kitching, Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C. A., St._Laurent, R., Naumann, S., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Kawahara, A. Y.2018A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
L. Ballesteros-Mejia, Arnal, P., Hallwachs, W., Haxaire, J., Janzen, D., Kitching, I. J., Rougerie, R.2020A global food plant dataset for wild silkmoths and hawkmoths and its use in documenting polyphagy of their caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Saturniidae, Sphingidae)
I. J. Kitching, Kendrick, R., Smetacek, P.2014A list of hawkmoth species (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, including their common names
A. K. Hundsdoerfer, Kitching, I. J., Wink, M.2005A molecular phylogeny of the hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, Macroglossinae)
J. - M. Cadiou, Kitching I. J.1998A new species of Ampelophaga from Nepal and northeastern India (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
R. B. Lachlan, Kitching I. J.2001A new species of hawk moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Papua New Guinea
I. J. Kitching2011A new species of Leptoclanis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 from Upemba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae)
I. J. Kitching2016A new species of Polyptychus Hübner, [1819] from Cuanza Sul, Angola (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae)
I. J. Kitching, Jin X. B.1998A new species of Sphinx (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Sichuan province, China
K. Kudo, Nakao, K., Kitching, I. J.2014A new species of the genus Acosmeryx (Boisduval, [1875]) from Yunnan and Guangxi, China (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae)
N. Ivshin, Kitching I. J.2014A new species of the genus Ambulyx Westwood, 1847 (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) from northern Borneo and adjacent territories
Y. Sondhi, Kitching, I. J., Basu, D. N., Kunte, K.2017A new species of Theretra Hübner (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from the southern Western Ghats, India
S. H. Yen, Kitching, I. J., Tzen, C. S.2003A new subspecies of hawkmoth from Lanyu, Taiwan, with a revised and annotated checklist of the Taiwanese Sphingidae (Lepidoptera)
G. Iyer, Kitching I. J.2019A preliminary study of the hawkmoth diversity (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India
W. J. Tennent, Kitching I. J.1998A reappraisal of two endemic hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from the Solomons Archipelago
A. K. Hundsdoerfer, Rubinoff, D., Attié, M., Wink, M., Kitching, I. J.2009A revised molecular phylogeny of the globally distributed hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences
J. Haxaire, Melichar, T., Kitching, I. J., Brechlin, R.2022A revision of the Asiatic genus Smerinthulus Huwe, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), with the description of three new taxa and notes on its junior synonym, Degmaptera Hampson, 1896
I. J. Kitching, Owada, M., Brechlin, R.1997A revision of the genus Pentateucha (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae), with the description of two new species from eastern China and Taiwan
P. Smith, Kitching, I. J., Ríos, S. D., Haxaire, J.2022An annotated catalogue of the Paraguayan Sphingidae (Lepidoptera)
I. J. Kitching, Ledezma, J., Baixeras, J.2001An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae of Bolivia (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
I. J. Kitching, Spitzer K.1995An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae of Vietnam
A. K. Hundsdoerfer, Kitching I. J.2020Ancient incomplete lineage sorting of Hyles and Rhodafra (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
R. Rougerie, Kitching, I. J., Haxaire, J., Miller, S. E., Hausmann, A., Hebert, P. D. N.2014Australian Sphingidae - DNA barcodes challenge current species boundaries and distributions
F. D. Sazatornil, Moré, M., Benitez-Vieyra, S., Cocucci, A. A., Kitching, I. J., Schlumpberger, B. O., Oliveira, P. E., Sazima, M., Amorim, F. W.2016Beyond neutral and forbidden links: morphological matches and the assembly of mutualistic hawkmoth-plant networks
Y. - X. Huang, Xing, Z. - P., Zhang, H., Xu, Z. - B., Tao, L. - L., Hu, H. - Y., Kitching, I. J., Wang, X.2022Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of eight diurnal hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae): new insights into the origin and evolution of diurnalism in sphingids
I. J. Kitching, Haxaire J.2004Clanis phalaris cottoni ssp. n., nouveau sphinx du nord de la Thaïlande (Lepidoptera Sphingidae)
J. - M. Cadiou, Kitching I. J.1998Corrigendum [to the colour plate for "A new species of Ampelophaga from Nepal and northeastern India (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)"]
M. Heikkilä, Minet, J., Zwick, A., Hundsdoerfer, A., Rougerie, R., Kitching, I. J.2023Critical re-examination of known purported fossil Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)
C. González, Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Díaz-Díaz, J., Toro-Vargas, D. M., Amarillo-Suarez, A. R., Gey, G., León, C., Tovar, E., Arias, M., Rivera, N., Buitrago, L. S., Pinto-Moraes, R. H., Martins, I. S. Sano, Decaëns, T., González, M. A., Kitching, I. J., Rougerie, R.2023Deadly and venomous Lonomia caterpillars are more than the two usual suspects
R. Brechlin, Kitching, I. J., Cadiou, J. - M.2001Description of a new species of the genus Polyptychus Hübner, [1819] "1816" from the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, with notes on several species of the subtribe Choerocampina (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
J. Haxaire, Salesne, T., Kitching, I. J.2022Description of the early stages of Compsulyx cochereaui (Viette, 1971) and a discussion of its systematic position (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Smerinthinae, Ambulycini)
R. Rougerie, Haxaire, J., Kitching, I. J., Hebert, P.2012DNA barcodes and morphology reveal a hybrid hawkmoth in Tahiti (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
R. Brechlin, Kitching I. J.2014Drei neue Arten der Gattung Cypa Walker, [1865] (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
R. Brechlin, Kitching I. J.2009Ein Überblick über die Gattung Sataspes Moore, [1858] mit Beschreibung zweier neuer Arten von den Philippinen (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae)
R. Brechlin, Kitching I. J.2012Eine neue Art der Gattung Callambulyx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
R. Brechlin, Kitching I. J.2010Einige Anmerkungen zur moorei-Gruppe der Gattung Ambulyx Westwood, 1847 mit Beschreibung neuer Taxa (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae)
F. Bärtschi, McCain, C. M., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Kitching, I. J., Beerli, N., Beck, J.2019Elevational richness patterns of sphingid moths support area effects over climatic drivers in a near‐global analysis
M. Moosburg, Kitching I. J.2022Erstnachweis von Acosmeryx kalimantana Brechlin, 2015 von Palawan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
A. Y. Kawahara, Breinholt, J. W., Ponce, F. V., Haxaire, J., Lei, X., Lamarre, G. P. A., Rubinoff, D., Kitching, I. J.2013Evolution of Manduca sexta hornworms and relatives: biogeographical analysis reveals an ancestral diversification in Central America
J. Beck, Takano, H., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Kitching, I. J., McCain, C. M.2018Field sampling is biased against small‑ranged species of high conservation value: a case study on the sphingid moths of East Africa
I. J. Kitching, Rudge S. A.1993First record of Darapsa myron (Sphingidae) from Thailand
A. K. Hundsdoerfer, Lee, K. M., Kitching, I. J., Mutanen, M.2019Genome-wide SNP Data reveal an overestimation of species diversity in a group of hawkmoths
N. R. Mape, Alisto, L., Kitching, I. J.2022Hawkmoths of Baguio City, Philippines: a preliminary checklist derived from photo-based observation records available on iNaturalist and Philippine Lepidoptera Internet platforms
I. J. Kitching, Cadiou J. - M.2000Hawkmoths of the world: an annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
C. A. Hamilton, Winiger, N., Rubin, J. J., Breinholt, J., Rougerie, R., Kitching, I. J., Barber, J. R., Kawahara, A. Y.2022Hidden phylogenomic signal helps elucidate arsenurine silkmoth phylogeny and the evolution of body size and wing shape trade-offs
A. K. Hundsdoerfer, Kitching I. J.2017Historic DNA for taxonomy and conservation: a case study of a century-old Hawaiian hawkmoth type (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
M. Grünig, Beerli, N., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Kitching, I. J., Beck, J.2017How climatic variability is linked to the spatial distribution of range sizes: seasonality versus climate change velocity in sphingid moths

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