Rhagastis aurifera Butler, 1875

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Nomenclature

Subtribe: Choerocampina

Genus: Rhagastis

Species:

Rhagastis aurifera Butler, 1875

Usage:

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Reference:

Descriptions of thirty-three new or little-known species of Sphingidae in the collection of the British Museum 7

Type data:

Butler, 1875, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 7. (Pergesa) SYNTYPE(S) [♂] [India:] Sikkim (Whitely) [NHMUK]. There is only a single male in NHMUK with appropriate data.

Taxonomic Notes:

Synonymized with Chaerocampa velata by Hampson, 1893, Fauna Brit. India 1: 91. Reinstated as a species by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 793 (key), 795. Synonymized with Rhagastis castor as a subspecies by Holloway, 1987, Moths of Borneo 3: 180. Treated as a species by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World: VIII.21. Reinstated as a subspecies of Rhagastis castor by Kitching & Spitzer, 1995, Tinea 14: 191. Implicitly synonymized with Rhagastis acuta as a subspecies. Implicitly reinstated as a species by Zhu & Wang, 1997, Fauna Sinica Insecta 11: 375. Resynonymized with Rhagastis castor as a subspecies by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 65. Raised to species status by Jiang et al., 2023, Insects 15: 359 (15).