[Holotype ♂] N.W. Himalayas [Pakistan/India] [NHMUK]. A holotype was inferred from Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 198.
Taxonomic Notes:
Erroneously synonymized with Ambulyx semifervens by Hampson, 1893, Fauna Brit. India 1: 78; then with Ambulyx substrigilis as a subspecies by Rothschild, 1894, Novit. zool. 1: 87. Reinstated as a species and transferred to Oxyambulyx by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 195 (key), 198. Transferred to Ambulyx by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World: VIII.2. Erroneously listed under Oxyambulyx by Danner, Eitschberger & Surholt, 1998, Herbipoliana 4(1): 68. Transferred back to Ambulyx 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
