Melittia eurytion

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cossoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Cossoidea

Familia: Sesiidae
Subfamilia: Sesiinae
Tribus: Melittiini
Genus: Melittia
Species: Melittia eurytion
Subspecies: M. e. eurytion – M. e. formosana – M. e. nagaii

Name

Melittia eurytion (Westwood, 1848)

Type locality: India, Sylhet" [= NE. Bangladesh, Sy!het]

Lectotype: BMNH. female ♀. (lectotype Trochilium eurytion designated by Spatenka, 1992)

Synonyms

• Trochilium eurytion Westwood, 1848 (original combination)
• Melittia eurytion (Westwood, 1884); Hampson, [1893]

References

• Arita, Y. & Gorbunov, O.G. 1996: New and unrecorded clearwing moths of the genus Melittia Hubner, [1819] (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) from Thailand. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 47(3): 157–173. Abstract and full article. Reference page. 
• Arita, Y. & Gorbunov, O.G. 2000b. On the tribe Melittiini (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of Vietnam. Tinea 16(4): 252–291. Reference page. 
• Gorbunov, O.G.; Arita, Y. 1999: Three new taxa of the genus Melittia Hubner, [1819] (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) from India. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 50(3): 193–208. Abstract and full article. Reference page. 
• Kallies, A., Arita, Y. & Min, W. 2016. A new species and new records of Melittiini from China and Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae). Zootaxa 4205(2): 162–170. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.2.5. Reference page.