Macroglossum stellatarum, Linnaeus, 1758

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 : 403

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.6135025

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787F8-410E-9E60-EBAD-4513FB6FF861

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Plazi

scientific name

Macroglossum stellatarum
status

 

M. stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Plate 2, Fig. 35

Material examined. PAKISTAN, [Gilgit Baltistan,] Gahkuch Bala, Ghizer, 26. iii. 2012, Zafar Iqbal; [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,] Buner, 13.viii 2006, Falak Naz; Jamrud, 17. xii. 1951, Mukhtar; [Islamabad,] Chhattar, 16. iv. 2004, Amjad Bukhari; [Baluchistan,] Panjgur, 23. vi. 1956, S. M. Din; as previous except, 5. iv. 1953, A. Qadir; Chaman, 17. ii. 1951, S. Rehman; as previous except 29. ii. 1952, Ali Jan; [Sindh,] Malir, Karachi, 19. vii. 1966, Sultan; as previous except 7. vii. 1956, Ahsan.

Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Pakistan. Macroglossum stellatarum is distributed across the northern subtropics of the Old World, and occurs as a migrant southwards into the tropics and northwards in Europe and Asia as far as the north coast of Norway and Yakutsk ( Pittaway & Kitching, 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Macroglossum

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