Clanidopsis

Clanidopsis
Clanidopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Clanidopsis
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species: C. exusta
Binomial name
Clanidopsis exusta
(Butler, 1875)[1]
Synonyms
  • Basiana exusta Butler, 1875

Clanidopsis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing only one species Clanidopsis exusta, which is found from northern Pakistan (Margalla Hills) and north-western India, eastward along the southern slopes of the Himalaya to central Nepal and neighbouring parts of Tibet and Hubei in China.[2]

The wingspan is 70-96 mm. It is similar to Clanis species, but the proboscis is much shorter and the forewing is broader and not falcate apically. The forewing underside is lacking a black streak posterior to the discal cell and the hindwing upperside is lacking the black basal patch.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Indigofera species in India.

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Clanidopsis/exusta.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
  2. ^ Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/c_exu.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
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