Polyptychus dentatus (Cramer, 1777)

Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Sultan, Amir, Kitching, Ian J., Pittaway, Anthony R., Markhasiov, Maxim, Khan, Muhammad Rafique & Naz, Falak, 2014, The Hawkmoth Fauna of Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Zootaxa 3794 (3), pp. 393-418 : 397

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:933EF6C6-A5BA-4CD3-B0B1-EA4205F36A84

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6134958

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787F8-4100-9E6E-EBAD-40F0FD44FB5B

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Plazi

scientific name

Polyptychus dentatus (Cramer, 1777)
status

 

Polyptychus dentatus (Cramer, 1777) View in CoL

Plate 1, Fig. 11

Material examined. PAKISTAN, [Islamabad,] Margalla Hills, 21. ix. 2006, Amir Sultan; [Sindh,] Malir, Karachi, 29. ix. 1959, Sultan; as previous except 18. xii. 1959, A. Aziz.

Remarks. According to Pittaway & Kitching (2013), this species occurs in Sri Lanka, tropical India and tropical Pakistan. There is a single specimen in the BMNH labelled “Nepaul, W.W.S.” but it is unclear whether this refers to the country of Nepal or some other locality. Extensive collecting more recently has failed to discover 'another' specimen of P. dentatus from Nepal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Polyptychus

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