The Hawkmoth Fauna of Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
Author
Rafi, Muhammad Ather
Author
Sultan, Amir
Author
Kitching, Ian J.
Author
Pittaway, Anthony R.
Author
Markhasiov, Maxim
Author
Khan, Muhammad Rafique
Author
Naz, Falak
text
Zootaxa
2014
3794
3
393
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.4
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H. ducalis
subsp.
lukhtanovi
Eitschberger, Danner & Surholt, 1998
Plate 2, Fig. 27
Material examined.
PAKISTAN
, [Baluchistan,]
Ziarat,
8000ft
,
6. viii.
[19]29, J. W. Evans; as previous except “Quetta Prov., Ziarat”,
30°10’N
67°49’E
,
14-20. vi. 1992
, Z. Weidenhoffer (
BMNH
).
Remarks.
This subspecies is known only from two isolated populations, one at Ziarat, near Quetta, in Baluchistan (
Danner
et al.
, 1998
), the other from central
Afghanistan
(Bamiyan, Yakawlang district,
34°48'2.80''N
67°11'3.37''E
) (
Pittaway & Kitching, 2013
), but its validity as a separate subspecies remains open to doubt (
Kitching & Cadiou, 2000
).