Ian James Kitching

Ian James Kitching, UK entomologist.

• Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 39 taxon names authored by Ian James Kitching

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1990

• Cadiou, J.M. & Kitching, I.J. 1990. New Sphingidae from Thailand (Lepidoptera). Lambillionea 90(4): 3–34. Reference page. 

1996

• Kitching, I.J. & Brechlin, R. 1996. New species of the genera Rhodoprasina Rothschild & Jordan and Acosmeryx Boisduval from Thailand and Vietnam, with a redescription of R. corolla Cadiou & Kitching (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 17(1): 51–66. Reference page. 

1997

• Kitching, I.J., Owada, M. & Brechlin, R. 1997. A revision of the genus Pentateucha (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae), with the description of two new species from eastern China and Taiwan. Tinea 15(2): 79–93. Reference page. 

1998

• Kitching, I. & Rawlins, J.E. 1998. The Noctuoidea. In: Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.) Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1. Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology. Berlin, de Gruyter. pp. 355–401. ResearchGate Reference page. 

2000

• Kitching, I.J. & Cadiou, J.M. 2000. Hawkmoths of the world: An Annotated and Illustrated Revisionary. Checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae): 1–226. ISBN 978-0-8014-3734-2. Reference page. 
• Kitching, I.J., Treadaway, C.G. & Hogenes, W. 2000. Psilogramma villani n. sp., a new hawkmoth from the Philippines and Sulawesi (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 21(2): 57–60. Reference page. 

2001

• Brechlin, R., Kitching, I.J. & Cadiou. J.M. 2001. Description of a new species of the genus Polyptychus Hübner, [1819] „1816” (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 22 (1): 31–35. Reference page. 

2003

• Yen, S.-H., Kitching, I.J. & Hsu, Y.-F. 2003. A New Subspecies of Hawkmoth from Lanyu Island, Taiwan, with a Revised and Annotated Checklist of Taiwanese Sphingidae (Lepidoptera). Zoological Studies 42 (2): 292–306. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2009

• Brechlin, R. & Kitching, I.J. 2009. Degamaptera cadioui n. sp., eine neue Sphingide (Lepidoptera) von Palawan, Philippinen. Entomo-satsphingia 2(1): 5–7. Reference page. 

2010

• Brechlin, R. & Kitching, I., 2010: Eine neue Art der Gattung Salassa MOORE, 1859 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Salassinae). Entomo-satsphingia, 3(1): 9–11. Reference page. 
• Brechlin, R. & Kitching, I., 2010a: Zwei neue Arten der miranda Gruppe der Gattung Loepa Moore, 1859 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Entomo-satsphingia, 3(1): 12–17. Reference page. 
• Brechlin, R. & Kitching, I., 2010b: Einige Anmerkungen zur moorei-Gruppe der Gattung Ambulyx Westwood 1847 mit Beschreibung neuer Taxa (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Entomo-satsphingia, 3(3): 20–26. Reference page. 
• Brechlin, R. & Kitching, I.J., 2010c: Four new species of the genus Psilogramma Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Entomo-satsphingia, 3(3): 66–74. Reference page. 
• Nässig, W.A., Kitching, I.J., Peigler, R.S. & Treadaway, C.G. 2010. The group of Cricula elaezia: Comments on synonyms and priority questions, with illustrations of barcode similarity trees, distribution maps, a revised checklist and a formerly unknown female (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 31(3): 145–165. full article zobodat (PDF). Reference page. 
• Vaglia, T., Haxaire, J., Kitching, I. & Liyous, M. 2010. Contribution à la connaissance des Theretra Hübner, 1819, des complexes clotho (Drury, 1773), boisduvalii (Bugnion, 1839) et rhesus (Boisduval, [1875]) d’Asie continentale et du Sud-est (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). The European Entomologist 3(1): 41-77. Reference page. 

2011

• Zahiri, R., Kitching, I.J., Lafontaine, J.D., Mutanen, M., Kaila, L., Holloway, J.D. & Wahlberg, N. 2011. A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Zoologica Scripta 40(2): 158–173. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00459.x Full article (PDF, archive). Reference page. 
• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

2012

• Zahiri, R., Holloway, J.D., Kitching, I.J., Lafontaine, J.D., Mutanen, M. & Wahlberg, N. 2011 ["2012"]. Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Systematic Entomology 37(1): 102–124. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x Reference page. 

2013

• Zahiri, R., Lafontaine, J.D., Holloway, J.D., Kitching, I.J., Schmidt, B.C., Kaila, L. & Wahlberg, N. 2013. Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics. Cladistics 29(4): 337–359. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12001 Reference page. 
• Zahiri, R., Lafontaine, D., Schmidt, C., Holloway, J.D., Kitching, I.J., Mutanen, M. & Wahlberg, N. 2013. Relationships among the basal lineages of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) based on eight gene regions. Zoologica Scripta 42(5): 488–507. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12022 Reference page. 
• Vaglia, T. & Kitching, I.J. 2013. Un nouveau Sphingidae du genre Acosmeryx Boisduval, [1875] décrit du Sabah (Bornéo), (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). The European Entomologist 4(4): 161-168. Reference page. 

2014

• Brechlin, R & Kitching, I.J., 2014: Three new species of the genus Cypa Walker, [1865] (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Entomo-satsphingia, 7(2): 5–14. Reference page. 
• Harbach, R.E., Kitching, I.J., Culverwell, C.L., Howard, T.M. & Linton, Y.-M. 2013. Nyx pholeocola, a new genus and cavernicolous species of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) from southern Thailand based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 3683(2): 159–177. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.2.5 Reference page. 
• Ivshin, N. & Kitching, I.J. 2014. A new species of the genus Ambulyx Westwood, 1847 (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) from Northern Borneo and adjacent territories. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 35(3): 109–119. Reference page. 
• Kudo, K., Nakao, K., Kitching, I.J. 2014: A new species of the genus Acosmeryx (Boisduval, [1875]) from Yunnan and Guangxi, China (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Tinea 23(1): 35–40. Reference page. 
• Rafi, M.A., Sultan, A., Kitching, I.J., Pittaway, A.R., Markhasiov, M., Khan, M.R. & Naz, F. 2014. The hawkmoth fauna of Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Zootaxa 3794(3): 393–418. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.4 Reference page. 

2016

• Kitching, I.J. 2016: A new species of Polyptychus Hübner, [1819] from Cuanza Sul, Angola (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Entomologia africana 21(2): 19–28. Reference page. 

2017

• Sondhi, Y., Kitching, I.J., Basu, D.N. & Kunte, K. 2017. A new species of Theretra Hübner (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4323(2): 185–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.2. Reference page. 

2018

• Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. Reference page. 

2019

• Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Dexter, K.M., Kitching, I.J., Breinholt, J.W., Zwick, A., Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Barber, J.R. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Phylogenomics resolves major relationships and reveals significant diversification rate shifts in the evolution of silk moths and relatives. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 182. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1505-1 . Reference page. 

2021

• Correa-Carmona, Y., Giusti, A., Haxaire, J., Rougerie, R. & Kitching, I.J. 2021. Three new species of the Xylophanes crotonis species-group (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Colombia and a neotype designation for Xylophanes aristor. European Journal of Entomology 118: 64–81. DOI: 10.14411/eje.2021.009. . Reference page. 

2023

• Bouyer & Kitching 2023. Contribution à la connaissance des Sphingidae de République démocratique du Congo (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). The European Entomologist 15(1-2): 95-112. Reference page. 
• Haxaire, J. Melichar, T. & Kitching, I.J. 2023. Revision of the Xylophanes libya (Druce, 1878) species group, with the description of four new species from Central and South America (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Macroglossinae). The European Entomologist 15(1-2): 24-59. Reference page. 
• Haxaire, J. Melichar, T. & Kitching, I.J. 2023a. A further note on the Xylophanes porcus (Hübner, 1823) species group, with the description of five new species. The European Entomologist 15(1-2): 61-93. Reference page.