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- Xanthopan is a monotypic genus of sphinx moth, with Xanthopan morganii (often misspelled as "morgani"), commonly called Morgan's sphinx moth, as its sole...
- colleague, added: [The proboscis of a hawk moth] from tropical Africa ([Xanthopan] morganii) is seven inches and a half [19 cm]. A species having a proboscis...
- and pollinate it. Twenty years after his death, a form of hawk moth (Xanthopan morganii) that did just that was found. Another example of predictive...
- However, Darwin's prediction could be verified in 1903, when the moth Xanthopan morganii praedicta was discovered in Madagascar, with a spirorhomb of...
- did not live to see the discovery of Xanthopan morganii. Even after the 1903 discovery however, news of Xanthopan morganii praedicta was not immediately...
- 1903, the predicted pollinator was discovered, a hawk moth then named Xanthopan morganii praedicta ("praedicta" meaning "the predicted one"). It has an...
- Darwin's orchid (Angrae**** sesquipedale) and the moth Morgan's sphinx (Xanthopan morgani) have a mutual relationship where the moth gains pollen and the...
- death's-head hawkmoths (Acherontia species) of Silence of the Lambs fame, and Xanthopan morganii with its enormous proboscis. Tribe Acherontiini Tribe Sphingini...
- interesting adaptive departure is the unusually long-tongued sphinx moth Xanthopan morganii praedicta. Charles Darwin predicted the existence and proboscis...
- moth with an equally long proboscis. This was confirmed in 1903 when Xanthopan morganii praedicta was found in Madagascar. Charles Darwin grew up with...