Hippotion rosetta (Swinhoe, 1892)

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Nomenclature

Subtribe: Choerocampina

Genus: Hippotion

Species:

Hippotion rosetta (Swinhoe, 1892)

Usage:

valid

Reference:

Catalogue of eastern Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Oxford University Museum. Part I. Sphinges and Bombyces 16

Type data:

HOLOTYPE [♂] [Indonesia: Maluku,] Ceram [Seram] (Wallace) [OUMO].

Taxonomic Notes:

Synonymized with Hippotion boerhaviae by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 756. Reinstated as a species by Holloway, 1987, Moths of Borneo 3: 173. Erroneously synonymized with Hippotion boerhaviae by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World VIII.9. Reinstated as a species by Kitching & Spitzer, 1995, Tinea 14: 189.