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, figure indicated therein, and text to the figure

1-3: Drury (1773): index, pl. XXVIII fig. 1, p. 48 [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.
• Hemming, F. (1957): Opinion 474. Determination of the dates to be assigned for the purposes of the Law of Priority to the names published in Dru Drury's Illustrations of Natural History in the period 1770-1782. — Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16 (16): 297-306. — Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org: [300]