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320:Description
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278:South Korea
268:, southern
190:Drury, 1773
109:Lepidoptera
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933:Categories
542:2011-10-25
518:References
496:Subspecies
466:Spermacoce
394:Amaranthus
230:Sphingidae
119:Sphingidae
89:Arthropoda
436:Boerhavia
424:Citrullus
418:Impatiens
406:Dioscorea
298:Australia
294:Indonesia
246:Sri Lanka
236:in 1773.
234:Dru Drury
137:Species:
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69:Eukaryota
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681:Wikidata
585:(1892).
478:Camellia
460:Pongamia
326:wingspan
290:Malaysia
262:Thailand
178:Synonyms
130:Theretra
115:Family:
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79:Animalia
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430:Arathis
389:Ocellus
383:Biology
266:Vietnam
258:Myanmar
224:, is a
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105:Order:
99:Insecta
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270:China
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250:India
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