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The European Entomologist Vol. 3, No 2
Published: 08 November 2010
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Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Rhagastis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 de Sumatra et revision du taxon meridionalis Gehlen, 1928 de l'île de Java (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) Jean HAXAIRE 1 & Tomás¹ MELICHAR2, Pages 81-90, Published: 08 November 2010
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A new species of the genus Rhagastis Walker, 1856 is described from the island of Sumatra. The status of Rhagastis meridionalis, described by Gehlen (1928) from Java and previously wrongly considered to be a junior synonym of Rhagastis acuta (Walker, 1856) is clarified. The status of Rhagastis hayesi Diehl, [1982] is also discussed and a lectotype designated from the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.
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Description de la sous espèce réunionnaise d'Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758), clarification de la sous espèce lacordairei (Boisduval, 1833) et mise en synonymie d'Euchloron megaera cadioui Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2010 (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) Jean HAXAIRE, Pages 91-99, Published: 08 November 2010
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The population of Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758) from La Réunion, hitherto referred to Euchloron megaera lacordairei (Boisduval, 1833), is here described as Euchloron megaera orhanti n. ssp. The type of Euchloron megaera lacordairei in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, is illustrated. Furthermore, Euchloron megaera cadioui Saldaitis & Ivinsky, 2010 is synonymized with Euchloron megaera asiatica Haxaire & Melichar, 2009.
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Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Kentrochrysalis Staudinger, 1887 de Chine centrale: Kentrochrysalis heberti sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) Jean HAXAIRE 1 & Tomás¹ MELICHAR2, Pages 101-110, Published: 08 November 2010
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A new species of Kentrochrysalis Staudinger, 1887 from central China is described and the habitus and male genitalia illustrated. The new species is closest to Kentrochrysalis streckeri (Staudinger, 1880) but clearly distinguished both by characters of the habitus and by analysis of the barcoding region of the mitochondrial gene COI.
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Données inédites sur deux espèces de Sphingidae, et description d'une nouvelle sous-espèce du genre Eurypteryx (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) Jean HAXAIRE, Pages 111-120, Published: 08 November 2010
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The presence of Craspedortha montana Cadiou, 2000 in northern Thailand and Rhadinopasa hornimani (Druce, 1880) on the island of Anjouan (Comoros Archipelago) is noted for the first time, and the validity of the subspecies, Rhadinopasa hornimani tanganyikae Clark, 1938 is discussed. These new records significantly change the known distributions of the two species. In addition, a new subspecies of Eurypteryx alleni Hogenes & Treadaway, 1993 is described from continental Malaysia, Burma and Thailand.
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