Rhagastis meridionalis
Rhagastis meridionalis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Bruno Gehlen in 1928. It is known from Java.
| Rhagastis meridionalis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Rhagastis |
| Species: | R. meridionalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhagastis meridionalis Gehlen, 1928[1] | |
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Taxonomy
It was described as a subspecies of Rhagastis acuta and synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1929. It was reinstated as a subspecies by Charles Albert Bridges in 1993, resynonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Ian J. Kitching and Jean-Marie Cadiou and 2000 and finally raised to species status by Jean Haxaire and Tomáš Melichar in 2010.
References
- "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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