Ambulyx tattina, Jordan, 1919

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, An updated checklist of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from Great Nicobar Island with a new species record from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3), pp. 375-381 : 375-376

Ambulyx tattina ( Jordan, 1919)

1919. Oxyambulyx tattina Jordan, Novit. Zool., 26: 192.

( Figures 1, 2, 3, 11 ) Diagnostic characters: Adults brick red. Forewing with subbasal dark patch absent; posterior margin dark; medial and postmedial lines run parallel and almost comes closed on posterior margin on both forewings and hindwings. In male genitalia the uncus is like lancet, gnathos U shaped, valves are flap like, saccus is triangle. Aedeagus is bent near the base, a strong saw-like structure is present on apex, vesica is without orientation.

Material examined: A & N Island, Nicobar , East West road, 08.xi.2018 (01 ♂), leg. K.C. Gopi & party (NZCZSI) .

Distribution. India: Nicobar Island. Elsewhere: Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and Philippines ( Holloway, 1987)

Remarks: Collection of A. tattina from Great Nicobar is its first record from India.

An updated checklist of Sphingidae from Great Nicobar Island

Figures

Figures 1-11. Ambulyx tattina (Jordan) (1-3) 1. Imago, 2. Male genitalia, 3. Aedeagus, 4. Apocalypsis velox Butler, 1876, 5. Psilogramma discistriga Walker, 1856, 6. Daphnis hypothous crameri Eitschberger & Melichar, 2010, 7. Cechenena helops helops (Walker, 1856), 8. Pergesa acteus (Cramer, [1779]), 9. Theretra clotho (Drury, 1773), 10. Theretra lucasi (Walker, 1856), 11. Ambulyx tattina (Jordan, 1919).