Psilogramma increta

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 : 399

Psilogramma increta (Walker, [1865])

Plate 1, Fig. 20

Material examined. PAKISTAN, [Azad Jammu and Kashmir,] Kotli, 22. iv. 2008, Ishaq Mastoi; as previous except Ahmed Zia.

Remarks. This species occurs from Kashmir and northwestern India eastwards across Nepal and Myanmar to Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, then north through Taiwan and eastern China to Korea and Japan ( Pittaway & Kitching, 2013). Psilogramma increta is replaced in the Western Ghats, southern India, and Sri Lanka by P. v a t e s (Butler, 1875); in Peninsular Malaysia and the Greater Sunda Islands, Indonesia, by P. e di i (Eitschberger, 2001), and by other species in the other islands of Indonesia and farther east. However, the status of many of these species, which are mostly based on minor and often inconsistent differences in wing pattern and genital morphology, remain to be critically assessed.