Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Order Lepidoptera > Superfamily Bombycoidea > Family Sphingidae > Subfamily Sphinginae > Tribe Sphingini

Sphinx Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Gargantua Kirby, 1892 generic synonym
Herse Agassiz, 1846 generic synonym
Hyloecus Kuznetsova, 1906 generic synonym
Hyloecus Agassiz, 1846 generic synonym
Hyloicus Hübner, 1819 generic synonym
Lethia Hübner, 1819 generic synonym
Lintneria Butler, 1876 generic synonym
Mesosphinx Cockerell, 1920 generic synonym
Phinx Fuessly, 1781 generic synonym
Spectrum Scopoli, 1777 generic synonym
Sphynx Pallas, 1771 generic synonym

Children

Sphinx ligustri Linnaeus, 1758
Sphinx maurorum (Jordan, 1931)
Sphinx pinastri Linnaeus, 1758

Genbank

loading

External Links

GBIF

Citation

Dr Ian Kitching. Sphinx Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=202819

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment

no data

Importance

no data

Provided by


GUID

urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:202819

Last modified

2011-01-26 by & van Nieukerken, Dr Erik J. Karsholt, Dr Ole & by Dr Ian Kitching

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: