1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

1-2: Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak, Miri, Gunung Mulu Nationalpark, Headquarter, 50 m, Terassenbeleuchtung am Rand von Alluvialwald (Überschwemmungswald), 15. Mai 2006 (det. & phot.: Dirk Mezger)Forum

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1-3: Drury (1773: 48, index, pl. XXVIII fig. 1) [from copyright-free scans at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Sphinx clotho Drury, 1773 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Deilephila cyrene Westwood, 1848 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Chaerocampa[sic] bistrigata Butler, 1875 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Chaerocampa[sic] aspersata Kirby, 1877 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Subspecies

• Theretra clotho celata (Butler, 1877) [subspecies according to funet.fi]

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Drury, D. (1773): Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited Upwards of Two Hundred and Twenty Figures of Exotic Insects, According to their different Genera; Very few of which have hitherto been figured by any Author, Being engraved and coloured from Nature, with the greatest Accuracy, and under the Author's own Inspection, On Fifty Copper-Plates. With a particular Description of each Insect: Interspersed with Remarks and Reflections of the Nature and Properties of many of them. Vol. II: i-vii, 1-90, pl. I-L, Index to the First Volume, Errata and Addenda to the First Volume [not paginated], Index to the Second Volume, Errata and Addenda to the Second Volume [not paginated]. London.