Hemaris ducalis

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 : 401

Hemaris ducalis subsp. ducalis (Staudinger, 1887)

Plate 2, Fig. 26

Material examined. PAKISTAN, [Gilgit Baltistan,] Shandur Pass, 4200m ( BMNH); “Gilgit, Road Gilgit- Chitral”, Shandur Pass, 3700-4000m, 6-11.vii. 1995 ( BMNH).

Remarks. The nominotypical subspecies is distributed from southern Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, east through the Tianshan, Pamir and Altai Mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, to southwestern Xinjiang, China and western Mongolia, and southeast through northern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan to Ladakh (Pittaway, 2013; Smetacek & Kitching, 2012).