Syntypes 2♂ [China: Xinjiang,] Kuldja [Yining/Gulja], vii [?ZISP].
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Pterogon gorgoniades as a geographical variety by Staudinger, 1901, in Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lepid. Pal. Faunen. 1: 104. Transferred to Sphingonaepiopsis and reinstated as a species by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 591. Transferred to Pterodonta by Danner, Eitschberger & Surholt, 1998, Herbipoliana 4(1): 179, 185. Transferred back to Sphingonaepiopsis by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 66. Treated as ‡Eupterodon kuldjaensis by Yakovlev, 2011, Amurian zool. J. 3: 287, but ‡Eupterodon is a nomen nudum, published without generic diagnosis, and possibly an error for Neopterodonta.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
