Cryptic species among bumblebee mimics: an unrecognized Hemaris hawkmoth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in eastern North America
Author
Schmidt, B. Christian
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-20
4399
1
journal volume
30460
10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.2
3bb8c8e6-3c22-406f-b3ac-7a2809a391ed
1175-5326
1206440
43FE3C2A-6413-4B9C-88B3-6F27F1B7035F
=
Sesia grotei
Butler, 1874: 365
.
TYPE
lOCAlITY: “
TEXAS
(BElfRAgE)” [
NHMUK
].
AS dISCUSSEd UNdER
axillaris
, G. W. BElfRAgE HAd RESIdEd IN bOTH HOUSTON & BOSqUE COUNTY bY 1874, SO THE
grotei
TYPES mAY HAVE COmE fROm EITHER REgION (BElfRAgE AlSO COllECTEd IN WEST TEXAS bUT
diffinis
dOES NOT OCCUR THERE). THE TAXON WAS bASEd ON THE fORm WITH A dENTATE fOREWINg mARgINAl bANd. AS fOR
axillaris
, THE PHENOTYPE ANd TYPE lOCAlITY ARE CONSISTENT WITH
H
.
diffinis
RATHER THAN
aethra
.