Array ( [0] => Andaman and Nicobar Islands [1] => Arunachal Pradesh [2] => Assam [3] => Himachal Pradesh [4] => Jammu and Kashmir [5] => Delhi [6] => Jharkhand [7] => Kerala [8] => Karnataka [9] => Madhya Pradesh [10] => Andhra Pradesh [11] => Goa [12] => Gujarat [13] => Maharashtra [14] => Manipur [15] => Meghalaya [16] => Mizoram [17] => Nagaland [18] => Odisha [19] => Sikkim [20] => West Bengal [21] => Tamil Nadu [22] => Uttarakhand )

Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea

Family

Sphingidae

Subfamily

Sphinginae

Tribe/Subtribe

Sphingini

Genus

Acherontia Laspeyres, 1809

Type Species

Sphinx atropos Linnaeus, 1758

= Manduca Hübner, 1806: [1]. Included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1926 (Opinion 97): 19. Only included species is Sphinx atropos Linnaeus, 1758.
= Atropos Oken, 1815: 762. Included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956 (Opinion 417): 3. The only originally included species is Sphinx atropos Linnaeus, 1758. Oken placed S. atropos as an objective synonym of an unnecessary replacement name of A. solani; the specific name is unavailable for the same reason as Atropos Oken (Fletcher & Nye 1982).
= Atropos Agassiz, 1846: 9 (TS: Sphinx atropos Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy)

Species/Subspecies

Acherontia lachesis lachesis Fabricius, 1798 (Sphinx)

Type Locality

India orientali

= Acherontia morta Hübner, 1819: 140 (TL. Java)
= Spectrum charon Billberg, 1820: 83 (TL. ?Java)
= Acherontia lethe Westwood, 1847: [87], pl. 42, fig. 2 (TL. India)
= Acherontia circe Moore, [1858]: 267 (TL. Java; Sylhet; China)
= Acherontia satanas Boisduval, 1875: pl. 16, fig. 1 (TL. Not stated)
= Manduca lachesis atra Huwe, 1895: 368 (Infrasubspecific name)
= Acherontia sojejimae Matsumura, 1909 [1912]: 27 (TL. Japan: Kyushu, Saga (Sojejima))
= Acherontia lachesis radiata Niepelt, 1931: 278 (TL. Celebes)
= Acherontia lachesis submarginalis Dupont in Dupont & Roepke, 1941: 6 (TL. Infrasubspecific name)
= Acherontia lachesis fuscapex Bryk, 1944a: 40 (TL. Burma)
= Acherontia lachesis diehli Eitschberger, 2003a: 68 (TL. Philippines: Marinduque, Boac)

Ladakh Jammu & Kashmir Uttarakhand Sikkim Punjab Bihar WestBengal Odisha Maharashtra Karnataka Goa Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Kerala Arunachal Pradesh Assam Meghalaya Tripura Manipur Mizoram Rajasthan Gujarat Jharkhand Chhattisgarh Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Nagaland Haryana Delhi Himachal Pradesh Telengana Andaman & Nikobar Island Lakshadweep

Distribution

States/Union Territories

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

Coasts, Deccan Peninsula, Indian Himalaya, Islands, North East, Semi Arid, Throughout India, Western Ghats

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