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		© Roger Key
Family	Sphingidae
Sub Family
Description	hawkmoths
Background to Family	Impressive moths, including residents and breeding migrants. The Sphinginae feed externally on the foliage of herbs, shrubs, and broadleaved and coniferous hosts within particular families. The Smerinthinae feed on broadleaved trees, and the Macroglossinae on numerous dicot herbs- often willowherbs (Onagraceae) and bedstraws (Rubiaceae). Some adults feed on nectar at long-tubed flowers.
		© Ian Kimber
No. taxa in DBIF	27
No. interactions	451
% interactions with British data	66%
No. records	641
% taxa with British data	96%
Notes	Old data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings. New material added from Waring, Townsend & Lewington, 2003. Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing, UK.; ;
Notes on Sources
Most recent source	2003

Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.


Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:28
Source	Classey, E.W.(1985) Entomologist's Gaz. 36:1 30-30:30
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:73
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:74
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:83
Source	Batra, S.(1984) Environ. Entomol. 13 1113-1124:1120
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:27
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:34
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:21
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 195
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:37
Source	Pratt, C.(1985) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 97 147-147:147
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 194
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:72
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:67
Source	Noble, K. (1975) Working draft of "The Natural foodplants of Macrolepidoptera larvae in Britain, Part II." Field Studies Council :56
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:82
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:23
Source	Rosenthal, S.S. & Buckingham, G.R.(1982) Hilgardia 50:2 1-19:19
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:31
Source	Heinig, S.(1981) Ent. Z. Frankf. a. M. 91:22 241-247:242
Source	West, B.K.(1982) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 94 242-243:242
Source	Sevastopulo, D.G.(1984) Entomologist's Gaz. 35:1 4-5:5
Source	Viart, M. (ed.) (1979) Poplars and Willows in Wood Production and Land Use. FAO Forestry Series 10 1-328:231
Source	Allan, P.B.M. (1949) Larval foodplants 1-126:23
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 190
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:36
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:29
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 193
Source	Allan, P.B.M. (1949) Larval foodplants 1-126:21
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:77
Source	Allan, P.B.M. (1949) Larval foodplants 1-126:20
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:38
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:32
Source	Aindow, P.A. & Aindow, P.A.(1988) Bull. amat. Ent. Soc. 47:359 89-96:
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:24
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:30
Source	Edmunds, M.(1983) NERC News Journal 3 13-14:13
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:26
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:70
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:33
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 191
Source	Allan, P.B.M. (1949) Larval foodplants 1-126:22
Source	Wiltshire, E.P.(1980) Proc. and Trans. Br. entomol. and natur. Hist. Soc. 13 55-55:55
Source	Pittaway, A.R.(1983) Entomologist's Gaz. 34:2 67-85:68
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:25
Source	Noble, K. (1975) Working draft of "The Natural foodplants of Macrolepidoptera larvae in Britain, Part II." Field Studies Council :54
Source	Sevastopulo, D.G.(1984) Entomologist's Gaz. 35:1 4-5:4
Source	O'Heffernan, H.K.(1985) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 97 223-223:223
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 196
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 192
Source	West, B.K.(1985) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 97 113-117:113
Source	Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (eds) (1979) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 9 1-288:35
Source	Noble, K. (1975) Working draft of "The Natural foodplants of Macrolepidoptera larvae in Britain, Part II." Field Studies Council :55

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