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Ambulyx

Number: 1217.0
In Author: Sagra
Author: Lucas
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Ambulyx
Journal: Hist. fis. pol. nat. Cuba
Page Comment: Also [1857], in Sagra, Hist. fis. pol. nat. Isla Cuba (2) 7 (2, Insectos): 291
Year: 1857
Homonym Count: 5.0
Page: 681
Ref Id: 10410.0
Series: (2)
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Smerinthinae
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Tribe: Ambulycini
Volume: 7
Senior Syn: PROTAMBULYX
Senior Syn Author: Rothschild & Jordan
Senior Syn Page: 173 (key), 174
Senior Syn Year: 1903
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Journal: Mantissa Plant.
Type Sp Page: 538
Type Sp Part: (2)
Type Sp Year: 1771
Type Sp Ref Id: 10387.0
Type Sp Genus: Sphinx
Type Sp: strigilis
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=AMBULYX', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- A junior homonym of Ambulyx Westwood, 1847, Cabinet oriental Ent.: [61], - Lepid., Sphingidae and an objective synonym of Protambulyx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903. Sagra's work was published simultaneously in both French and Spanish editions; the sizes of the volumes in the two editions differ, hence the different pagination. In the Spanish edition the name was spelt Ambulyx and * Ambulix, the latter an incorrect original spelling. Ambulyx was regarded by Lucas as a Boisduval manuscript name. Kitching & Cadiuo (2000) list AMBULYX Burmeister 1855; AMBULYX Herrich-Schäffer, 1854; AMBULYX Lucas, 1857 and AMBULYX Walker, 1856 as junior names of PROTAMBULYX Rothschild & Jordan, 1903.

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Dataset buttmoth
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