Photo #10217: Sphingidae sp.

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Photo, and identified by: Yuri Semejkin. Image redone at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2011-08-06 00:00:00, Near Vladivostok

Photographer's comment: A Sphingidae caterpillar?

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06.02.2016 9:36, Yuri Semejkin

With regard to the subspecies C. tatarinovii f. eversmannii. I asked why in a post on 02. 3. 16 I'm asking whether a subspecies of brown roisterer Tatarinov or vnutrovidovaya this variability ?, and then refer to the Amur Zoological Journal. Maybe it is not clear et al., Although no more questions.
Although everything here is simple, visible and understandable. Again in brief.1) in the determinant DV and blue of subspecies is not mentioned, and respectively the question. Next: I Found a infa in the Zoological Journal of the Amur - took a little time to update and so on. Here I'm still not saying anything. And then (above), expressing the view that this subspecies. .It remains to wait for the letter of Alexander and define subspecies, not a subspecies.

04.02.2016 20:00, Irina Nikulina

Eugene, thank you. About S. kindermanni like everything is clear - do not have it there. It is now a question of (subspecies) C. tatarinovi eversmannii. The site http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/c_tat.htm S. tatarinovi f. eversmannii (Eversmann, 1854) called the form (in ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION). In the same in this regard refer to the work Gordeyev (Gordeyev TV, Gordeyev SY 2011. Taxonomic remarks on Callambulyx tatarinovii (BREMER & GREY, 1852 [1853]) from Transbaikalia (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) // Neue entomologische Nachrichten , 67, 79-88.) And VVDubatolova in the article "The new findings night makrocheshuekrylyh (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Macroheterocera) in reserve Dauria" Amur Zoological Journal IV (4), in 2012 he was already named subspecies C. t. eversmanni (Popoff in Eversmann, 1854). But he also refers to the same work Gordeeva ... But if a subspecies, then you need to add to the site. I looked at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2015/search/all/key/Callambulyx+tatarinovii/match/1, where this subspecies is not, although there is no longer 3 subspecies and 5.In The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, too, did not find, and then http://eol.org/pages/863630/names/related_names. Apparently not made it yet. Therefore, I wrote that the question remained.

04.02.2016 18:45, Evgeny Komarov

A small contribution to the discussion of S. kindermanni. Here infa with http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/s_kin.htm site: Not fully known within the western Palaearctic, but has been found as far west as Istanbul in northern Turkey and Konya in southern Turkey (de Freina, 1979 ; de Freina, 2012), on Cyprus, in the Caucasus, the Republic of Georgia (Didmanidze, Petrov & Zolotuhin, 2013), Armenia (Dubatolov, [1999]), Syria (Talhouk, 1997), Lebanon (Zerny, 1933; Ellison & Wiltshire, 1939; Talhouk, 1997), Jordan (Müller et al, 2005a), Israel (Eisenstein, 1984;. Müller et al, 2005b) and northern Iraq (Wiltshire, 1957).; then east to Mashhad (Kalali, 1976) and south to Shiraz (Iran) (Daniel, 1971; Ghassemi, Alemansoor & Alehossein, 2009). Also, Turkmenistan (Danov & Pereladov, 1985), Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan (Chatkal Mountains), Kazakhstan (Shovkoon, 2015), western Xinjiang Province (China) (Pittaway & Kitching, 2000), Tajikistan (Shchetkin et al., 1988) north-east Afghanistan (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Ebert, 1969), eastern Afghanistan south and east of the Hindu Kush (Swinhoe, 1885; Ebert, 1969), northern Pakistan (Chitral) and Kashmir (Bell & Scott, 1937; Rafi et al., 2014). One specimen has been recorded from Kuwait (Kuwait University Collection) (Pittaway, 1993); this is indistinguishable from typical f. orbatus.

Extra-limital range.Western Mongolia (Yakovlev, Ustyuzhanin & Doroshkin, 2005), north, central and southern Xinjiang Province, China (Staudinger, 1901; Chu & Wang, 1980b; Pittaway & Kitching, 2000) and the western Himalaya of India. Reports of this species from the Transbaikal area of Russia (Eversmann, 1854; Derzhavets, 1984) are erroneous and refer to the brown form of Callambulyx tatarinovii (Bremer & Grey, 1853). Those. about any Primorye / Trans-Baikal region and there is no question.

03.02.2016 22:34, Irina Nikulina

Ure, a subspecies ( ssp. ) then I just did not mention it was a brown uniforms C. tatarinovii f. eversmannii, which occurs mainly in the Trans-Baikal and sometimes mistaken for Smerinthus kindermanni . The image of this form of C. tatarinovi f. eversmannii (Eversmann, 1854) (photo by P. Gorbunov) is here http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=185709&view=findpost&p=579945, below explanation P.Morozova. The presence of this form of speech, too, was not in Primorye.Not met even once, and on foreign websites, so that it was mentioned in connection with the Primorye. On what "some websites" you met on the distribution in Primorye? I honestly do not know what it identified as a separate subspecies. But I looked article V. Dubatolova about which you write - there really is we are talking not about the form, but the subspecies Callambulyx tatarinovi eversmanni (Popoff in Eversmann, 1854).So the question remains.

03.02.2016 10:25, Irina Nikulina

Once we are today about this kind I came in, and I'll write about this caterpillar. I read the discussion. Firstly, in Primorye there Smerinthus kindermanni. And in the "Key to the DDA insects, v.5, ch. 3," and Sinev Primorye indicated only Caecus S. and S. rlanus.About finds kindermanni in Primorye had never heard, and reports findings kindermanni Transbaikalia considered erroneous definition, they are referred to the brown uniforms Callambulyx tatarinovii (f eversmannii -. The dominant form of females in the Trans-Baikal region) [134]. Secondly - yes, caterpillars and caecus rlanus develop, mainly on various types of Salicaceae (genus Populus and Salix). But even caterpillars kindermanni same feed - Populus and Salix.Therefore, Sergei conclusion is not clear.
What's here - the discussion.
Revised coastal species of the subfamily Smerinthinae and descriptions of larvae. Perhaps here the last instar caterpillar is one of the species of the genus marumba, perhaps, Marumba sperchius http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/m_car.htm or Marumba gaschkewitschii http://file.mushikurotowa.cooklog.net/momosuzume-green. JPG and http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/m_gas.htm That they have such uzkoovalnye dark spiracles to cut them at the center white line and a long straight horn (12 mm). Neither the color of thoracic legs or head shape is not visible in the photo, unfortunately. Both in Primorye widespread. Forage plants are different, but discuss them, I think, it makes no sense. On this fragment of experts (EBVolynets, BPI DVO RAN) to pinpoint the plant are not taken. In addition, Yuri discussed that a caterpillar could easily be removed and not on the host plants.