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Polyptychus

Number: 23648.0
Author: Hübner
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/148/mode/2up
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Polyptychus
Journal: Verz. bekannt. Schmett.
Year: 1819
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 141
Ref Id: 2846.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Smerinthinae
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Tribe: Smerinthini
Type Country: [INDIA]
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: Coromandel coast
Types: Type(s)
Type Des Ref Id: 7323.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Grote
Type Des Year: 1873
Type Des Journal: Bull. Buff. Soc. nat. Sci.
Type Des Title: Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences / Buffalo, New York
Type Des Volume: 1
Type Des Page: 184
Type Des Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/65238#page/194/mode/2up
Type Sp Author: Cramer
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95175#page/108/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Uitl. Kapellen
Type Sp Page: 42, pl.125, fig.G
Type Sp Volume: 2
Type Sp Year: 1777
Type Sp Ref Id: 6913.0
Type Sp Genus: Sphinx
Type Sp: dentatus
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=POLYPTYCHUS']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- S. dentatus is dated from the wrapper of part 11 of the work, not from the title-page of volume 2 which is dated 1779. POLYPTYCHUS was included within the subfamily SPHINGIDAE: SMERINTHINAE by Lemaire & Minet, in Kristensen (1999).

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c