Macroglossum stellatarum, Linnaeus, 1758

Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Sultan, Amir, Kitching, Ian J., Pittaway, Anthony R., Markhasiov, Maxim, Khan, Muhammad Rafique & Naz, Falak, 2014, The Hawkmoth Fauna of Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Zootaxa 3794 (3), pp. 393-418 : 403

M. stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Plate 2, Fig. 35

Material examined. PAKISTAN, [Gilgit Baltistan,] Gahkuch Bala, Ghizer, 26. iii. 2012, Zafar Iqbal; [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,] Buner, 13.viii 2006, Falak Naz; Jamrud, 17. xii. 1951, Mukhtar; [Islamabad,] Chhattar, 16. iv. 2004, Amjad Bukhari; [Baluchistan,] Panjgur, 23. vi. 1956, S. M. Din; as previous except, 5. iv. 1953, A. Qadir; Chaman, 17. ii. 1951, S. Rehman; as previous except 29. ii. 1952, Ali Jan; [Sindh,] Malir, Karachi, 19. vii. 1966, Sultan; as previous except 7. vii. 1956, Ahsan.

Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Pakistan. Macroglossum stellatarum is distributed across the northern subtropics of the Old World, and occurs as a migrant southwards into the tropics and northwards in Europe and Asia as far as the north coast of Norway and Yakutsk ( Pittaway & Kitching, 2013).