LECTOTYPE ♀ Italy: [Livorno] [LM, Wiesbaden]; designated by Hacker, 1999, Esperiana 7: 453. The lectotype is the middle female ("Das Weibchen (Mitte)") in "Kasten 23".
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Deilephila lineata by Ménétriés, 1857, Enumeratio Corporum Anim. Mus. imp. Acad. Sci. Petropolitanae (Ins. Lepid.) 2 (Lepid. Heterocera): 91. Reinstated as a species by Grote & Robinson, 1868, Trans. ent. Soc. Amer. 2: 75. Synonymized with Deilephila lineata as a geographical variety by Staudinger, 1901, in Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lepid. Pal. Faunen. 1: 103. Transferred to Celerio (as a subspecies of Celerio lineata) by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 732. Reinstated as a species by Tutt, 1904, Nat. Hist. Br. Lepid. 4: 147. Resynonymized with Celerio lineata as a subspecies by Jordan, 1912, in Seitz (ed.), Gross-Schmett. Erde 2: : 257. Reinstated as a species by Eitschberger & Steiniger, 1976, Atalanta 7: 71. Transferred to Hyles by Pittaway, 1983, Entomologist's Gaz. 34: 82. Listed as a subspecies of Hyles lineata by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World VIII: 11. Reinstated as a species by Haxaire, 1993, Lambillionea 93: 160. Treated as a subspecies of Celerio lineata by Haruta, 1994, Tinea 14 (suppl. 1): 157. Reinstated as a species by Vives Moreno, 1994, Cat. sist. sinon. Lepid. Penin. Iberica y Baleares 2: 421. Implicitly synonymized with Celerio lineata as a subspecies by Zhu & Wang, 1997, Fauna Sinica Insecta 11: 342. Implicitly reinstated as a species in Hyles by Danner, Eitschberger & Surholt, 1998, Herbipoliana 4 (1): 201.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
