Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Order Lepidoptera > Superfamily Bombycoidea > Family Sphingidae > Subfamily Smerinthinae > Tribe Smerinthini > Genus Smerinthus

Smerinthus ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sphinx Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Smerinthus*	Latreille, 1802	accepted genus name
*Bebroptera*	Sodoffsky, 1837	generic synonym
*Bellia*	Tutt, 1902	generic synonym
*Bellinca*	Strand, 1943	generic synonym
*Copismerinthus*	Kirby, 1892	generic synonym
*Daddia*	Tutt, 1902	generic synonym
*Dilina*	Dalman, 1816	generic synonym
*Eusmerinthus*	Grote, 1877	generic synonym
*Merinthus*	Meigen, 1830	generic synonym
*Nicholsonia*	Tutt, 1902	generic synonym
*Niia*	Strand, 1943	generic synonym

Species group names

*Sphinx ocellata*	Linnaeus, 1758	objective synonym
*Smerinthus ocellatus*	auct.	subjective synonym
*Smerinthus ocellatus*	auct.	misapplied name

Children

Smerinthus ocellata atlanticus Austaut, 1890
Smerinthus ocellata ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: Aftenpåfugleøje sources: danish PESI focal point

English-United States: Eyed Hawk-moth sources: Charles Hussey

Norwegian Bokmål: kveldpåfugløye

Norwegian Nynorsk: kveldpåfuglauge

Swedish: videsvärmare

Welsh: gwalch-wyfyn llygeidiog

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Citation

Dr Ian Kitching. Smerinthus ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=443923

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

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