Type(s) "India orientali" (Abildgaard) [?ZMUC]. Although Zimsen, 1964, Type material I.C. Fabricius: 566, considered the type(s) to be lost, there is a male labelled "type" in the Kiel coll., ZMUC.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Chaerocampa butus by Hampson, 1893, Fauna Brit. India 1: 93. Reinstated as a species by Aurivillius, 1898, Ent. Tidskr. 18: 153. Transferred to Hippotion by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 748 (key), 749.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
