Rhagastis meridionalis

Rhagastis meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Rhagastis
Species: R. meridionalis
Binomial name
Rhagastis meridionalis
Gehlen, 1928[1]
Synonyms
  • Rhagastis acuta meridionalis Gehlen, 1928

Rhagastis meridionalis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Java.

Taxonomy

It was described as a subspecies of Rhagastis acuta and synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Clark in 1929. It was reinstated as a subspecies by Bridges in 1993, resynonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Kitching and Cadiou and 2000 and finally raised to species status by Haxaire and Melichar in 2010.

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2011-10-25.


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