LECTOTYPE ♀ [India:] "coast of Coromandel" [Tamil Nadu/Andhra Pradesh] (ex coll. Stoll/van Lennep; ex coll. Felder) [NHMUK]; implicitly designated by Rothschild, 1919, Novit. zool. 26: 222. Cramer stated that the specimens figured at A, B, E and F on plate 148 were in the collection of C. Stoll, while C and D were in the van Lennep collection. However, Rothschild believed that many of Stoll's and other collectors' specimens mentioned by Cramer subsequently passed into the possession of van Lennep.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Sesia hylas by Fabricius, 1781, Spec. Ins. 2: 154. Reinstated as a species by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 628. Resynonymized with Hemaris hylas by Swinhoe, 1892, Cat. east. and Aust. Lepid. Heterocera Colln Oxf. Univ. Mus. 1: 2. Reinstated yet again as a species by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 463 (key), 469.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
