Larval pattern morphotypes in the Western Palaearctic Hyles euphorbiae complex (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Macroglossinae)

Insect Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-86

  Hundsdoerfer, Anna K ^a,b   Mende, Michael B ^a,b   Harbich, Heimo C ^c   Pittaway, Anthony R ^d   Kitching, Ian J ^e  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c CABI ^*  (Germany)

^d CABI   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biogeography; climate change.; colour; hawkmoths; hybridisation; Larvae; morphology; speciation; species; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

HYLES EUPHORBIAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MACROGLOSSINAE (MOTHS); SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 79959252508     PISSN: 1399560X     EISSN: 1876312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187631211X555302     Document Type: Article

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