LECTOTYPE ♂ Australia (pres. by J. Hunter) [NHMUK]; designated by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 89.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Hemaris hylas by Butler, 1876, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 9: 522; then with Cephonodes picus by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 628. Resynonymized with Hemaris hylas by Swinhoe, 1892, Cat. east. and Aust. Lepid. Heterocerca Colln Oxf. Univ. Mus. 1: 2, and then treated as a subspecies of Cephonodes hylas by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 468. Resynonymized with Cephonodes picus by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 41. Reinstated as a species by Moulds, Tuttle & Lane, 2020, Hawkmoths of Australia: 3, 76.
Nomenclature notes:
A Boisduval manuscript name made available by Walker.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
