Everything about Hylas

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: HylasA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Predicting the global distribution of Coffee Bee Hawk Moth (Cephanodes hylas L.) under climate change using MaxEntInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A new species of fringe-limbed tree frog, genus Hyla, from Darién, PanamáThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Antireflective Nanoprotuberance Array in the Transparent Wing of a Hawkmoth, Cephonodes hylasCited 114 times
5. Go sideways: TheiodamasA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ArgonauticaA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Antireflective Nanoprotuberance Array in the Transparent Wing of a Hawkmoth, Cephonodes hylas

  Akihiro Yoshida, Mayumi Motoyama, Akinori Kosaku · 1997 · Zoological Science · 114 citations

• Nanoprotuberance Array in the Transparent Wing of a Hawkmoth, Cephonodes hylas

  Akihiro Yoshida, Mayumi Motoyama, Akinori Kosaku · 1996 · Zoological Science · 42 citations

• Alleghanian tectono-thermal evolution of the dextral transcurrent Hylas zone, Virginia Piedmont, U.S.A.

  Alexander E. Gates, Lynn Glover · 1989 · Journal of Structural Geology · 39 citations

• Deformation and metamorphism in the Hylas zone and adjacent parts of the eastern Piedmont in Virginia

  ANDY R. BOBYARCHICK, LYNN GLOVER · 1979 · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 39 citations

• Ecological effects of lead mining on Ozark streams: In-situ toxicity to woodland crayfish (Orconectes hylas)

  A.L. Allert, J.F. Fairchild, R.J. DiStefano · 2009 · Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · 27 citations

• Construcción de la base gráfica para un sistema de información y gestión del patrimonio arquitectónico: Casa de Hylas

  Roque Angulo Fornos · 2012 · Arqueología de la Arquitectura · 18 citations

• The myth of Hylas revisited: the frog name Hyla and other commentary on Specimen medicum (1768) of J. N. Laurenti, the “father of herpetology”

  Charles W. Myers, Richard B. Stothers · 2006 · Archives of Natural History · 12 citations

• A Revision of the Neotropical Biting Midges of the Hylas Group of Culicoides (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)

  Willis W. Wirth, Franklin S. Blanton · 1968 · The Florida Entomologist · 12 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Predicting the global distribution of Coffee Bee Hawk Moth (Cephanodes hylas L.) under climate change using MaxEnt

  Kartik Omanakuttan, Taniya Pandey, Abhimanyu Chettri · 2026 · Scientific Reports · 1 citations

• The Candid Hylas

  Maria Subi · 2022 · Analele Universității de Vest. Seria Științe Filologice · 0 citations

• First report of the pellucid hawk moth (Cephonodes hylas L.) infesting Kadamba in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

  Naresh Talari, Geethanjali Lingutla · 2025 · Journal of Entomological Research · 0 citations

• Re-Echoing Hylas: Dracontius’ Myth and the Classical Tradition

  Sophia Papaioannou · 2023 · Phoenix · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕A new species of fringe-limbed tree frog, genus Hyla, from Darién, PanamáWilliam Edward Duellman · 1966
• Berkeley's WorldTom Stoneham · 2002
• 📕New tree frogs of the genus Hyla from the cloud forests of western Guerrero, MexicoKraig Adler · 1972
• 📕New Brazilian forms of HylaBertha Lutz · 1968
• Status of the frog Hyla albomarginata in Central AmericaM. J. Fouquette · 1961
• 📕A re-evaluation of the Hyla bistincta species group, with descriptions of three new species (AnuraJan Caldwell · 1974
• 📕Hylas, the Nymphs, Dionysos & OthersChristiane Sourvinou-Inwood · 2005
• Der Hylas-Mythos in der antiken LiteraturKenneth Mauerhofer · 2004

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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