Rhagastis

Rhagastis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Rhagastis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.): 675 [key], 791; TS: Pergesa velata Walker

Rhagastis; [LepIndex]; [AfroMoths]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Rhagastis (Choerocampina); [HMW], 19
Rhagastis (Macroglossini); [RFEL]

Rhagastis acuta (Walker, 1856)
- meridionalis Gehlen, 1928
- Rhagastis acuta acuta; [iNaturalist]
- Rhagastis acuta meridionalis; [LepIndex]; [iNaturalist]
- Rhagastis acuta; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
- Rhagastis meridionalis; [CoL] ; [GBCL]
Rhagastis albomarginatus (Rothschild, 1894) NE.Himalaya, China, Taiwan, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. See [maps]
- Metopsilus albomarginatus Rothschild, 1894; Novit. Zool. 1 (1): 78; TL: Khasia Hills, Assam
- nubilosa Bryk, 1944
  - = ; [HMW]
- Rhagastis albomarginata nubilosa; [iNaturalist]
- Rhagastis albomarginata; [iNaturalist]
- Rhagastis albomarginatus nubilosa; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis albomarginatus; [HMW]; [MOB3]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [GBCL]; [MOB]
Larva on Dichroa , Hydrangea , Vitis [MOB3]: 181
- R. a. dichroae Mell, 1922 Hong Kong
  - centrosinaria Chu & Wang, 1980
    
    = ; [HMW]
  - Rhagastis albomarginata dichroae; [iNaturalist]
  - Rhagastis albomarginatus dichroae; [HMW]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
  - Rhagastis mongoliana centrosinaria; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
- R. a. everetti Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
  - Rhagastis albomarginatus everetti Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; 799 [Sundanian]
  - Rhagastis joyceyi Clark, 1924; Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 9: 21
    
    = ; [HMW]
  - Rhagastis albomarginatus everetti; [HMW]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [GBCL]
Rhagastis binoculata Matsumura, 1909
- varia Wileman, 1910
  - = ; [HMW]
- elongata Clark, 1937
  - = ; [HMW]
- sauteri Mell, 1958
  - = ; [HMW]
- Rhagastis albomarginatus sauteri; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis binoculata; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
- Rhagastis elongata; [LepIndex]
Rhagastis castor (Walker, 1856) NE.Himalayas, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. See [maps]
- Pergesa castor Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 153
- ?Metopsilus aurantiacus Rothschild, 1894; Novit. Zool. 1 (1): 78
- Rhagastis aurifera sumatranus Clark, 1924; Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 9: 20
- Rhagastis javanica Roepke, 1941; in Dupont & Roepke: 89
- Rhagastis castor; [MOB3]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [MOB]
Larva on Amorphophallus , Vitis [MOB3]: 181
- R. c. aurifera (Butler, 1875)
  - Pergesa aurifera Butler, 1875; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 7 [NE.Himalayas]
  - Rhagastis castor aurifera; [HMW]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
- R. c. jordani Oberthür, 1904
  - chinensis Mell, 1922
    
    = ; [HMW]
  - Rhagastis castor jordani; [HMW]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
  - Rhagastis confusa chinensis; [LepIndex]; [iNaturalist]
  - Rhagastis jordani; [LepIndex]
- R. c. formosana Clark, 1925
  - Rhagastis castor formosana; [HMW]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis confusa Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- chinensis Clark, 1936; (preocc.)
  - = ; [HMW]
- peeti Clark, 1936
  - = ; [HMW]
- Rhagasstis confusa; [HMW]
- Rhagastis castor chinensis; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis confusa peeti; [LepIndex]; [iNaturalist]
- Rhagastis confusa; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis gloriosa (Butler, 1875)
- orientalis Bryk, 1944
  - = ; [HMW]
- yunnanaria Chu & Wang, 1980
  - = ; [HMW]
- Rhagastis gloriosa orientis; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis gloriosa; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
- Rhagastis yunnanaria; [LepIndex]
Rhagastis hayesi Diehl, [1982]
- Rhagastis hayesi; [HMW]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Rhagastis lambertoni (Clark, 1923)
- Rhagastis lambertoni; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [AfroMoths] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [AFM]
Rhagastis lunata (Rothschild, 1900)
- sikhimensis Rothscihld & Jordan, 1903
- gehleni Bender, 1942
- yunnana Chu & Wang, 1983
- yunnanaria Chu & Wang, 1980; (preocc.)
- Rhagastis lunata gehleni; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis lunata sikkimensis; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis lunata yunnanaria; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis lunata; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis mongoliana (Butler, [1876])
- Pergesa mongoliana Butler, [1876]
- pallicosta Mell, 1922
- Rhagastis mongoliana pallicosta; ; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis mongoliana; [HMW]; [RFEL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
Larva on Vitis , Impatiens balsamina, Galium verum, Polygonum [RFEL]
Rhagastis olivacea (Moore, 1872) NW.Himalayas. See [maps]
- Pergesa olivacea Moore, 1872; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1872 (2): 567; TL: Simla, NW.Himalayas, 7000ft
- Rhagastis olivacea; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis rubetra Rothschild & Jordan, 1907 Nias, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo. See [maps]
- Rhagastis rubetra Rothschild & Jordan, 1907; Novit. Zool. 14 (1): 95
- Rhagastis mjobergi Clark, 1923; Proc. New England Zool. Cl. 8: 69
- Rhagastis mjobergi; [LepIndex]
- Rhagastis rubetra; [HMW]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [MOB] ; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis trilineata Matsumura, 1921
- Rhagastis trilineata; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis velata (Walker, 1866) Darjeeling. See [maps]
- Pergesa velata Walker, 1866; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 35: 1853; TL: Darjeeling
- Rhagastis velata; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Tony Pittaway]

Unmatched external taxa

Rhagastis albomarginatus albomarginatus; [Tony Pittaway]
Rhagastis castanea; [iNaturalist]
Rhagastis diehli; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Rhagastis swinhoei; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

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References:

[AFM]
African Moths
[AfroMoths] De Prins, J., & De Prins, W.
Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera); (Version 2024-03-15). Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Belspo; https://doi.org/10.15468/s1kwuw
[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[MOB] Holloway & Barlow
Online version of; Moths of Borneo
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Tony Pittaway] WWW pages
Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic; Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic; Sphingidae of China (and adjacent regions)
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

Some related literature:

Butler, 1875
Descriptions of thirty-three new or littleknown species of Sphingidae in the collection of the British Museum Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 : 3-16, pl. 1-2
Clark, 1923
Thirty-three new Sphingidae Proc. New England Zool. Cl. 8 : 47-77
[MOB3]; Holloway, 1987
Superfamily Bombycoidea: families Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae [1998 reprint] Moths of Borneo 3
[HMW]; Kitching & Cadiou, 2000
An annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) Hawkmoths of the World
[GBCL]; Kitching, Rougerie, Zwick, Hamilton, St Lauren, Naumann, Mejia, Kawahara, 2018
A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) Biodiv. Data J. 6: e22236
[RFEL]; Leley, 2016
Annotated catalogue of the insects of Russian Far East. Volume II. Lepidoptera Cat. ins. Russian Far East. 2 : 1-812
Moore, 1872
Descriptions of new Indian Lepidoptera Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1872 (2) : 555-583, pl. 32-34
Rothschild, 1894
Notes on Sphingidae, with descriptions of new species Novit. Zool. 1 (1) : 65-98, pl. 5-7
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.) : 1-813, : 815-972, pl. 1-67
Rothschild & Jordan, 1907
New Sphingidae Novit. Zool. 14 (1): 92-95
Walker, 1856
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 1-271 (1856)
Walker, 1866
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 31: 1-322 ([1865]), 32: 323-706 (1865), 33: 707-1120 (1865), 34: 1121-1534 ([1866]), 35: 1535-2040 (1866)

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