Quote Originally Posted by Psyche View Post
Not sure if this is the valid name.
Moth of Borneo list this sepcies as A. subocellata westwood 1847 but made no mention of A. moorei in the text (including under A. substrigilis).

Funet put subocellata 1874, as a junior synonym of moorei 1858, quoting Moore as the author of his own name ( contravening ICZN rule).

Lepindex put moorei 1858 as a synonym of subocellata in error quoting Butler as the author of moorei.
It however, also place moorei 1858 Boisduval as a synonym od A. substrigilis 1874 Westwood.

Boisduval is the correct author of A. moorei 1858 which is a synonym of A. substrigilis(possibly a variety by some).
I don't think A. moorei have been upgraded to a full species from A. substrigilis (thereby creating a new species absent from the Bornean list).
http://www.archive.org/stream/catalo...e/265/mode/1up

TL Seow
Check here , where is states the two were synonymised to A. moorei.

The same is quoted by Inoue, Kennett & Kitching in Moths of Thailand, volume 2, 1997, Sphingidae. p.35. but adds " Horsfield & Moore..........1: 266, nec Boisduval [as a syn. of Ambulyx substrigalis Westwood]".

The synonymy was undertaken by Kitching & Spitzer, 1995 :An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae of Vietnam, p.178. Tinea 14: 171-195.

Moth of Borneo, volume 3 was published prior to 1995, in 1987.