LECTOTYPE ♂ [Brazil:] Rio [de] Janeiro, Petropolis [NHMUK]; implicitly designated by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9: legend to plate IX. Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 686, pl. 9, fig. 13, incorrectly referred to the lectotype as a female.
Taxonomic Notes:
Transferred to Xylophanes by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 677 (key), 686.
Nomenclature notes:
This species was listed by Bönninghausen, 1899, Dt. ent. Z., Iris 12: 129, as Theretra spec. B.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
