Eumorpha satellitia subsp. licaon (Cramer, 1775)

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Nomenclature

Genus: Eumorpha

Species: Eumorpha satellitia

Subspecies:

Eumorpha satellitia subsp. licaon (Cramer, 1775)

Usage:

valid

Reference:

Die uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America 86, pl. 55, fig. A

Type data:

Type(s) West Indies [coll. B. Vriends].

Taxonomic Notes:

Synonymized with Philampelus satellitia (misattributed to Drury) by Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 175. Reinstated as a species by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 669. Resynonymized with Pholus satellitia as a subspecies by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 482, who also noted that Cramer's locality of "West Indies" also included Surinam. Erroneously treated (as ‡lycaon) as a synonym of Pholus satellitia by Köhler, 1924, Z. wiss. InsektBiol. 19 (Sonderheft): 9. Reinstated as a subspecies by Draudt, 1931, in Seitz (ed.), Die Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 882. Erroneously synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Carcasson & Heppner, 1996, Atlas Neotrop. Lepid. 4B: 57. Reinstated as a subspecies of Eumorpha satellitia by Haxaire & Herbin, 1999, Rev. Assoc. rouss. Ent. 8: 71.