Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Burchalovskaia, Polina D. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2022, A review of the Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Zanzibar (Unguja) Island (Tanzania), Ecologica Montenegrina 57, pp. 109-117 : 110

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2022.57.10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13241726

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB228787-FF94-FFC9-A3C2-7EA314D14CD2

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scientific name

Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

3. Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

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Material examined: TANZANIA: Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 3 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg. GoogleMaps ; Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'46"S, 39°21'30"E, 4.iv.2021, 1 specimen, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg. GoogleMaps

Distribution. Widespread throughout Africa, Europe, and Western Asia ( Kitching 2022).

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Acherontia

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