Proserpinus

Proserpinus Hübner, [1819]

Proserpinus Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (9): 132; TS: Sphinx oenotherae [Schiffermüller]
Pterogon Boisduval, [1828]; Eur. Lepid. Index Meth.: 32
Pteropogon Meigen, 1829; Syst. Beschr. eur. Schmett. 1: 129
Lepisesia Grote, 1865; Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 5: 38; TS: Macroglossa flavofasciata Walker
Pogocolon Boisduval, [1875]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères, 1: 314; TS: Sphinx gaurae Smith
Dieneces Butler, 1881; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 8: 308; TS: Pterogon clarkiae Boisduval

Dieneces; [NHM-BMW]
Lepisesia; [NHM-BMW]
Pogocolon; [NHM-BMW]
Proserpinus; Druce, 1881, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 5; [P&N23]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Proserpinus (Macroglossina); [HMW], 18
Proserpinus (Macroglossinae); [MABL]
Pterogon; [NHM-BMW]
Pteropogon; [NHM-BMW]

Proserpinus clarkiae (Boisduval, 1852)

California - British Columbina, Alberta, Idaho, Colorado, Mexico, ...?. See [maps] Clark's Day Sphinx

Pterogon clarkiae Boisduval, 1852; Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (2) 10 (2): 318; TL: California
Lepisesia victoria Grote, 1874; Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 2: 147; TL: British Columbia

Proserpinus clarkiae; [MNA21]; [HMW]; [MABL]; Osborne, 2000, J. Lep. Soc. 53 (4); [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [LEPIFORUM] ; [PNWM] ; [BAMONA]

Proserpinus flavofasciata (Walker, 1856)

NA. See [maps] Yellow-banded Day Sphinx

Macroglossa flavofasciata Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 87; TL: St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay, Canada
Macroglossa ulalume Strecker, [1878]; Lep. Rhopal. Het. (15): 135, pl. 15, fig. 3; TL: Oregon
Lepisesia ulalume var. rachel Bruce, 1901; Ent. News 12 (1): 19; TL: Colorado

Proserpinus flavofasciata; [MNA21]; [HMW]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [PNWM] ; [BAMONA]

Proserpinus gaurae (Smith, 1797)

Florida - Texas, Missouri. See [maps]

Sphinx gaurae Smith, 1797; in Smith & Abbot, Nat. Hist. Rarer Lepid. Ins. Georgia 1: 61, pl. 31; TL: Georgia
Proserpinus circae H. Edwards, 1882; Papilio 2 (1): 9; TL: Georgia
Proserpinus deceptiva Barnes & Benjamin, 1924; Contr. nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 5 (3): 101; TL: Harris Co., Texas

Proserpinus gaurae; [MNA21]; [HMW]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [BAMONA]

Proserpinus juanita (Strecker, 1876)

Texas - Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, CA. See [maps]

Pterogon juanita Strecker, 1876; Lep. Rhopal. Het. (13): 112, pl. 13, fig. 6; TL: on the banks of Rio Grande, Mexico or Southwest Texas
Proserpinus juanita oslari Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.): 610; TL: Verde River, Arizona

Proserpinus juanita juanita; [iNaturalist]
Proserpinus juanita oslari; [LepIndex]; [iNaturalist]
Proserpinus juanita; [MNA21]; [HMW]; [MABL]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [BAMONA]

Proserpinus proserpina (Pallas, 1772)

NAF, SEU, CEU, tr, Turkestan. See [maps] Sphinx de l'épilobe Nachtkerzenschwärmer törpeszender Helokkikiitäjä

Sphinx proserpina Pallas, 1772; Spicilegia Zool. 9: 26, pl. 2, f. 7
Sphinx oenotherae [Schiffermüller], 1775; Ank. syst. Schmett. Wienergegend: 43
- = ; [HMW]
Sphinx schiffermilleri Fuessly, 1779; Mag. Ent. 2: 69
- = ; [HMW]
francofurtana (Fabricius, 1781)
- = ; [HMW]
Proserpinus aenotheroides Butler, [1876]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 (4): 621
- = ; [HMW]
maxima (Grum-Grshimailo, 1887)
- = ; [HMW]
Pterogon proserpina var. japetus Grum-Grshimailo, 1890; in Romanoff, Mém. Lép. 4: 513
- = ; [HMW]
Pterogon proserpina ab. brunnea Geest, 1903; Allg. Zs. Ent. 8: 311
- = ; [HMW]
attenuata Schultz, 1904
- = ; [HMW]
grisea Rebel, 1910
- = ; [HMW]
infumata Closs, 1911
- = ; [HMW]
schmidti Schmidt, 1914
- = ; [HMW]
Proserpinus proserpina gigas Oberthür, 1922; Étud. Lépid. Comp. 19 (1): 128; TL: Timahdit, Middle Atlas, Morocco
- = ; [HMW]

Proserpinus aenetheroides[sic]; (spell.?)
Proserpinus proserpina japetus; [LepIndex]
Proserpinus proserpina; [BSW]; [HMW]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [LEPIFORUM] ; [Heiner Ziegler] ; [MBE] ; [SZMN] ; [Tony Pittaway] ; [Tony Pittaway]
Pterogon proserpina; Grum-Grshimailo, 1890, in Romanoff, Mém. Lép. 4: 513
Sphinx oenotherae; [iNaturalist]

Proserpinus terlooi H. Edwards, 1875

Mexico, Arizona. See [maps]

Proserpinus terlooi H. Edwards, 1875; Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6: 90; TL: near Mazatlan, Mexico
mooseri (Clark, 1937)

Proserpinus terlooi; Godman & Salvin, 1881, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 5; [MNA21]; [MABL]
Proserpinus terlooii mooseri; [LepIndex]; [iNaturalist]
Proserpinus terlooii terlooii; [iNaturalist]
Proserpinus terlooii; [HMW]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [BAMONA]

Proserpinus vega (Dyar, 1903)

New Mexico, Mexico?, .... See [maps]

Lepisesia vega Dyar, 1903; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 (4): 291; TL: Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico

Proserpinus vega; [HMW]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [LEPIFORUM] ; [BAMONA]

References:

[BAMONA] Opler, Pavulaan, Stanford & Pogue
Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node
[BCA] electronic
BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[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
[HBN] Francis Hemming, 1937
HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[Heiner Ziegler]
Switzerland / Schweiz; www.pieris.ch
[JLS]
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society; the original J. Lep. Soc. articles
[LAMAS-NEO] Gerardo Lamas
Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[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
[MABL] Manuel A. Balcázar Lara
Palomillas de México
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[P&N23] Pohl & Nanz, 2023
Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, north of Mexico
[PNWM]
Pacific Northwest Moths
[SVF]
Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)
[SZMN] Lepidoptera
Siberian Zoological Museum
[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:

Barnes & Benjamin, 1924
Notes and new species Contr. nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 5 (3) : 99-199
Boisduval, [1828]
Europaeorum Lepidopterorum Index Methodicus Eur. Lepid. Index Meth. : 1-103
Boisduval, 1852
Lépidoptères de la Californie Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (2) 10 (2) : 275-324
Boisduval, [1875]
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres Hétérocéres. Tome Premier. Sphingides, Sésiides, Castnides Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères, 1 : 1-568, pl. 1-11
Bruce, 1901
A New Variety of Lepisesia Ent. News 12 (1) : 19
Butler, [1876]
Descriptions of several new species of Sphingidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 (4) : 621-623
Butler, 1881
An account of the Sphinges and Bombyces collected by Lord Walsingham in North America during the years 1871-1872 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 8 : 306-318
[Schiffermüller], 1775
Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend Ank. syst. Schmett. Wienergegend : 1-322, pl. 1a-b
Dyar, 1903
New North American Lepidoptera with notes on larvae Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 (4) : 290-297
H. Edwards, 1875
Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, No. 11. - List of the Sphingidae of California and Adjacent Districts, with Descriptions of New Species Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6 : 86-94
H. Edwards, 1882
New species of Heterocera Papilio 2 (1) : 9-15
[BSW]; de Freina & Witt, 1987
Die Bombyces und Sphinges der Westpalearktis
Fuessly, 1779
Magazin für die Liebhaber der Entomologie Mag. Ent. 2 : 1-288, pl. 1-3
Geest, 1903
Neue Schmetterlings-Aberrationen Allg. Zs. Ent. 8 : 308-313
Druce in Godman & Salvin, 1881; Godman & Salvin, 1881
Biologia Centrali-Americana; or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Mexico and Central America. Zoology. Lepidoptera. Heterocera Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 1-490, 3: pl. 1-101
Grote, 1865
Notes on Cuban Sphingidae Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 5 : 33-84
Grote, 1874
Notes on American Lepidoptera with Descriptions of twenty-one New Species Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 2 : 145-163
Grum-Grshimailo, 1890
Le Pamir et sa faune lépidoptérologique in Romanoff, Mém. Lép. 4 : 1-576, pl. A,1-21
[MNA21]; Hodges, 1971
SPHINGOIDEA Moths America N of Mexico 21
Hübner, [1819]
Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])
[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
Meigen, 1829
Systematische Beschreibung der europäischen Schmetterlinge; mit Abbildungen auf Steintafeln Syst. Beschr. eur. Schmett. 1 : 1-170, pl. 1-42
Oberthür, 1922
Les Lépidoptères du Maroc Étud. Lépid. Comp. 19 (1): 13-402, (2): pl. 530-546
Osborne, 2000
Additional notes on Properpinus clarkiae and Arctonotus lucidus (Sphingidae) life histories from the Pacific coast of North America J. Lep. Soc. 53 (4) : 170-172
Pallas, 1772
Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae et obscurae animalium iconibus, descriptionibus at que commentariis illustrantur Spicilegia Zool. 9 : 3-86, pl. 1-5
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.) : 1-813, : 815-972, pl. 1-67
Strecker, 1876; Strecker, [1878]
Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic, with descriptions and colored illustrations Lep. Rhopal. Het. (1): 1-7, pl. 1 (1872), (2): 9-15, pl. 2 (1873), (3): 17-24, pl. 3 (1873), (4): 25-32, pl. 4 (1873), (5): 33-43, pl. 5 (1873), (6): 45-50, pl. 6 (1873), (7): 51-60, pl. 7 (1873), (8): 61-70, pl. 8 (1874), (9): 71-80, pl. 9 (1874), (10): 81-94, pl. 10 (1874), (11): 95-100, pl. 11 (1874), (12): 101-108, pl. 12 (1875), (13): 109-123, pl. 13 (1876), (14): 125-134, pl. 14 (1878), (15): 135-143, pl. 15 (1878)
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)

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