LECTOTYPE ♂ [Bangladesh:] Silhet [Sylhet], «45.107» [(ex coll. Rev. J. Stainforth)] (NHMUK010588497); designated by Zolotuhin & Yevdoshenko, 2019, Hawkmoths of Russia and adjacent territories: 412.
Taxonomic Notes:
Transferred to Theretra by Dudgeon, 1898, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 11: 412.
Nomenclature notes:
A Boisduval manuscript name made available by Walker. For some reason, Moore 1858, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lepid. Ins. Mus. East India Company 1: 278, considered Boisduval's manuscript name, which was made available by Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 143, as Chaerocampa silhetensis, to be “inapplicable” and “cancelled” it. It is possible that he believed Horsfield's earlier (1826) manuscript name, Chaerocampa bisecta, should have been given priority. Moore therefore listed Chaerocampa silhetensis incorrectly as a junior synonym of Chaerocampa bisecta.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
