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Rhagastis meridionalis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Java.
Taxonomy
It was described as a subspecies of Rhagastis acuta and synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Clark in 1929. It was reinstated as a subspecies by Bridges in 1993, resynonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Kitching and Cadiou and 2000 and finally raised to species status by Haxaire and Melichar in 2010.
References
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