Macroglossum passalus (Drury, 1773)

Shimizu, So, Chen, Hsuan-Pu, Lin, Kai-Ti, Chen, Ren-Jye, Fujie, Shunpei, Hung, Su-Chuan, Lo, Mei-Ling, Tsai, Ke-Hsiung & Maeto, Kaoru, 2023, Online citizen sciences reveal natural enemies and new occurrence data of Meteorus stellatus Fujie, Shimizu & Maeto, 2021 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103436-103436 : 103436

Macroglossum passalus (Drury, 1773)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Moth larva and its parasitoid (Meteorus stellatus) were observed.; recordedBy: Ren-Jye Chen ; lifeStage: larva; occurrenceID: CF350B71-1D14-5101-8959-249FBB9B87A1; Taxon : scientificName: Macroglossum passalus (Drury, 1773); acceptedNameUsage: Macroglossum passalus (Drury, 1774); originalNameUsage: Sphinx passalus Drury , 1773; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Lepidoptera ; family: Sphingidae ; genus: Macroglossum ; specificEpithet: passalus; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Drury ; vernacularName: 虎皮楠長喙天蛾; nomenclaturalCode: ICZN; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : continent: Asia ; islandGroup: Taiwan; island: Taiwan; country: Taiwan; countryCode: TW; county: Pingtung; municipality: Shizi Township ; locality: Shouka Forest Road ; Identification : identifiedBy: Ren-Jye Chen ; dateIdentified: 2022; identificationReferences: Chen 1994, Wang 1995; Event : eventDate: 12/02/2023; year: 2023; month: 2; day: 12; Record Level: type: StillImage; language: zh; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation; source: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=8976680589071832&set=a.395643457175631

Taxon discussion

The larva of this species was identified, based on Chen (1994) and Wang (1995).

Notes

Known as a host of M. stellatus from Japan ( Fujie et al. 2021) and Taiwan (present paper).