Type(s) New Britain (Godeffroy) [NHMUK]. The specimens described by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 639, under Macroglossum calescens are not this species but Macroglossum caldum caldum, and the specimen figured in pl. 3, fig. 5, as the "type" of Macroglossum calescens is not (but it is the holotype of Macroglossum caldum).
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
