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1. Live pictures
1.1. Imago
2. Diagnosis
2.1. Original description, figure indicated therein, and text to the figure
3. Biology
3.1. Habitat
4. Further information
4.1. Other combinations
- Sphinx nessus Drury, 1773 [original combination]
4.2. Synonyms
- Sphinx equestris Fabricius, 1793 [synonym according to funet.fi]
- Chaerocampa[sic] rubricundus Schaufuss, 1870 [synonym according to funet.fi]
4.3. Faunistics
Locus typicus is Madras in India.
Kuchlein & de Vos (1999: 135-136) mention a specimen with unclear origin, found in The Netherlands: "[14] In 1989 a specimen of Theretra nessus (Drury, 1773), originating from the Indo-Australian region, was found in a container in Weesp (near Amsterdam) (pers. comm., W. Hogenes, Zoological Museum of Amsterdam). The label reads "Siriname" which, of course, should be "Suriname", but the species does not occur there. Presumably the container in question travelled vie Suriname to The Netherlands and the hawk-moth has been inside it all the time."
Nach [Global Biodiversity Information Facility] kommt die Art in Indonesien, Singapur, Australien, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Hongkong, Philippinen, Indien, Fidschi, Neukaledonien, Japan, Papua-Neuguinea, China, Vanuatu, Malaysia, Taiwan, Macao, Bhutan, Nepal, Brunei und Sri Lanka vor.
(author: Erwin Rennwald und Michel Kettner)
4.4. 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]
- Kuchlein, J.H. & R. de Vos (1999): Geannoteerde Naamlijst van de Nederlandse Vlinders - Annotated Checklist of the Dutch Lepidoptera. — 302 S.; Leiden (Backhuys Publishers)
