Type(s) [China:] vicinity of Pekin [Beijing] (Tatarinoff & Gaschkewitsch) [ZISP].
Taxonomic Notes:
Queried as a synonym of Ambulyx substrigilis by Boisduval, 1875, in: Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères) 1: 188. Synonymized with Ambulyx substrigilis by Hampson, 1893, Fauna Brit. India 1: 77. Reinstated as a species and transferred to Oxyambulyx by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 195 (key), 199. Returned to Ambulyx by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World: VIII.2.
Nomenclature notes:
The genus name in the original decription was misspelled as "Ambulix".
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
