Polyptychus chinensis

Polyptychus chinensis, the Chinese crenulate hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from China, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Archipelago.

Polyptychus chinensis
Dorsal view
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Polyptychus
Species:
P. chinensis
Binomial name
Polyptychus chinensis
Synonyms
  • Polyptychus draconis Rothschild & Jordan, 1916

Description

The wingspan is 92–112 mm.

  • Female
  • Female underside
  • Male
  • Male underside

Subspecies
  • Polyptychus chinensis chinensis (Taiwan and the southern Ryukyu Archipelago)[2]
  • Polyptychus chinensis draconis Rothschild & Jordan, 1916 (Central to southwestern China)[3]
  • Polyptychus chinensis draconoides Mell, 1935 (Central to eastern China)[4]
  • Polyptychus chinensis shaanxiensis Brechlin, 2008 (Shaanxi)
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gollark: Also, presumably the rarer alts of common ones, like red dorsals and tan ridgewings.
gollark: Probably non-CB metallics, too.

References
  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Polyptychus chinensis chinensis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 -- Chinese crenulate hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  3. Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Polyptychus chinensis draconis Rothschild & Jordan, 1916 -- Chinese crenulate hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  4. Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Polyptychus chinensis draconoides Mell, 1935 -- Chinese crenulate hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 16, 2018.


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