Rhagastis meridionalis

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Rhagastis meridionalis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Rhagastis
Species:
R. meridionalis
Binomial name
Rhagastis meridionalis
, 1928[1]
Synonyms
  • Rhagastis acuta meridionalis Gehlen, 1928

Rhagastis meridionalis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Bruno Gehlen in 1928. It is known from Java.

Taxonomy[]

It was described as a subspecies of Rhagastis acuta and synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1929. It was reinstated as a subspecies by Charles Albert Bridges in 1993, resynonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Ian J. Kitching and Jean-Marie Cadiou and 2000 and finally raised to species status by Jean Haxaire and Tomáš Melichar in 2010.

References[]

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2011-10-25.


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