Butler, 1880, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1880: 412. (Deilephila) LECTOTYPE [♀] [Afghanistan:] [6 miles from Candahar, on River Urgundab (or Argandab), Rokeran (Major H. Roberts)] [NHMUK]; implicitly designated by Ebert, 1969, Reichenbachia 12: 44 (legend to figure 2).
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Dilephila [sic] dahlii by Hampson, 1893, Fauna Brit. India 1: 99; then with Deilephila euphorbiae as a [geographic] variety by Staudinger, 1901, in Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lepid. Pal. Faunen. 1: 102. Resynonymized with Hyles euphorbiae as a subspecies by Pittaway, 1983, Entomologist's Gaz. 34: 78. Reinstated as a species by Derzhavets, 1993, Ent. Obozr. 72: 662. Synonymized with Hyles euphorbiae by Hundsdoerfer et al., 2019, Genome Biol. Evol. 11 (8): 2147. Reinstated as a species by Zolotuhin & Yevdoshenko, 2019, Hawkmoths of Russia and adjacent territories: 359, 451.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
