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    Species Accepted

    Acherontia lachesis Fabricius, 1798

    Greater Death's-head Hawkmoth
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Acherontia

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Greater Death's-head Hawkmoth English
      Zmora orientalna Polish
      bee robber English
      greater death's head hawkmoth English
      Мёртвая голова Лахесы Russian
      തലയമ്പൻ Malayalam
      ผีเสื้อหัวกะโหลกใหญ่ Thai
      クロメンガタスズメ Japanese
      人面天蛾 Chinese
      鬼臉天蛾 Chinese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

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      Fabricius, J. C. (1798). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52749343%20https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52749343 Published in
      Billberg, G. J. (1820). Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33665717
      Westwood, J. O. (1847). The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology: being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24607901
      Hübner, J. (1816). Verzeichnis bekannter Schmettlinge [sic]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33045094
      Boisduval, J. B. A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidopères. I. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10025484
      Matsumura, S. (1909). Zoku Nihon senchu zukai. [Thousand Insects of Japan]. Supplement 1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34674226
      Moore, F. (1857). In: Horsfield, Th. & Moore, F. – A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11410282
      Bryk, F. (1944). [Title].
      Huwe, A. (1895). Verzeichniss der von Hans Fruhstorfer wärend seines Aufenthalts auf Java in den Jahren 1891 bis 1893 erbeuteten Sphingiden. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8342438
      Niepelt, F. W. (1931). Eine neue Sphingiden-Form. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Int-Ent-Zschr_25_0272-0278.pdf

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