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Taxonomy
Hippotion gracilis (Butler, 1875)
Nomenclature
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Subtribe: ChoerocampinaGenus: Hippotion
Species:
Hippotion gracilis (Butler, 1875)
Usage:
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Type data:
SYNTYPES 1♂ Congo [Democratic Republic of Congo] (Richardson); 1♂ Sierra Leone (Morgan); 1 Congo [Democratic Republic of Congo] (Richardson); 1 Sierra Leone (Morgan) [NHMUK]. One of the Congo syntypes and one of the Sierra Leone syntypes have been located in NHMUK; the other two syntypes have not been found in NHMUK.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Chaerocampa eson by Maassen, 1881, Stettin. ent. Ztg 41: 56. Reinstated as a species by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 651. Resynonymized with Hippotion eson by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 754. Reinstated as a species by Eitschberger, 2006, Neue ent. Nachr. 59: 372.
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Synonyms: 3