[Holotype] ♂ Ceylon [Sri Lanka] (Sir W.H. Gregory) [NMID]. A holotype was inferred from Kirby, 1880, Scient. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc. (2) 2: 332.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Ambulyx substrigilis by Hampson, 1893, Fauna Brit. India 1: 77. Raised to subspecies status by Rothschild, 1894, Novit. zool. 1: 87. Reinstated as a species by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 37.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
![Ambulyx auripennis, male, upperside. [Sri Lanka] Ceylon](https://sphingidae.myspecies.info/sites/sphingidae.myspecies.info/files/Ambulyx_auripennis_BMNHE813974_male_up.jpg){kind=link}
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