Ambulyx rawlinsi sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) – A new species of hawkmoths from Indonesia Tomáš Melichar 1, Michal Řezáč 2 & Michal Rindoš 3, Pages 1-13, Published: 17 April 2015

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A new species of the genus Ambulyx Westwood,1847, Ambulyx rawlinsi sp. nov., is described and illustrated from the island of Seram, Maluku, Indonesia. A comparison of the habitus and male genitalia, together with DNA barcode data, is made with its closest relatives, Ambulyx charlesi (Clark, 1924) from Buru and A. marissa Eitschberger & Melichar, 2009 from Obi.

A new species of the genus Antheraea Hübner, 1819 (“1816”) from Tibet (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) Stefan Naumann* & Swen Löffler, Pages 15-26, Published: 17 April 2015

Abstract: A new species of the genus Antheraea Hübner, 1819 (“1816”) is described: A. discata n. sp. from Tibet. The male holotype, male genital structures and female are figured in colour. The holotype is preserved in the Rainer Seegers Foundation, part of the entomological collections of the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. The position of A. discata n. sp. and its nearest relative, A. compta Rothschild, 1899, within the genus Antheraea is discussed.

A new species of the genus Erinnyis (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) from Cuba Tomáš Melichar1, Michal Řezáč2, Jean Haxaire3 & Anna Ilčíková4, Pages 27-33, Published: 17 April 2015

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A new species of the genus Erinnyis Hübner, [1819], Erinnyis cubensis sp. nov., is described and illustrated from La Bajada, Cuba. A comparison of the habitus and male genitalia is made with its closest relative, Erinnyis guttularis (Walker, 1856) from Hispaniola (Dominican Republic). The new species brings the number of species of Erinnyis recorded from Cuba to nine.