LECTOTYPE ♀ [India:] Assam [Meghalaya], «Khásis [Khasi Hills] (Badgley)» [BMNH]; designated by D'Abrera, [1987], Sphingidae Mundi: 128, who incorrectly stated that it was a male.
Taxonomic Notes:
Transferred to Gehlenia by Inoue, 1973, Bull. Fac. domest. Sci. Otsuma Wom. Univ. 9: 116. This move was overlooked by d'Abrera, 1987, Sphingidae Mundi: 128, who implicitly returned obliquifascia to Ampelophaga. Transferred back to Gehlenia by Haxaire, 1994, Lambillionea 94: 36, but referred back to Ampelophaga by Zhu & Wang, 1997, Fauna Sinica Insecta 11: 294 (key), 295. Implicitly returned to Gehlenia by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 46. Transferred to Lepchina by Brechlin, 2000, Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo (N.F.) 21: 144. Transferred to Dahira by Brechlin & Melichar, 2006, Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo (N.F.) 27: 210.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
