''Pachylia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Sphingidae
The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as hornworms. It includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, but species ar ...
. The genus was erected by
Francis Walker in 1856.
Species
*''
Pachylia darceta''
H. Druce, 1881
*''
Pachylia ficus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
*''
Pachylia syces''
(Hübner __NOTOC__
Hübner is a Germanic surname, sometimes spelled Huebner or Hubner.
The name means an agricultural worker, a farmer, possibly and specifically one who worked a "hube", which was a piece of land roughly equivalent to the English measuremen ...
, 1819)
Pachylia darceta MHNT CUT 2010 0 340 French Guiana, female.jpg, ''Pachylia darceta''
Pachylia ficus MHNT.jpg, ''Pachylia ficus''
Pachylia syces MHNT CUT 2010 0 519 Rio Bamba Equateur - male.jpg, ''Pachylia syces''
References
Dilophonotini
Sphingidae of South America
Moths of South America
Sphingidae genera
Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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