Marumba gaschkewitschii

Marumba gaschkewitschii
Marumba gaschkewitschii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Marumba
Species: M. gaschkewitschii
Binomial name
Marumba gaschkewitschii
(Bremer & Grey, 1853)[1]
Synonyms
  • Smerinthus gaschkewitschii Bremer & Grey, 1853
  • Marumba gaschkevitshi Kuznetsova, 1906
  • Marumba omei Clark, 1936
  • Marumba fortis Jordan, 1929
  • Smerinthus heynei Austaut, 1892
  • Smerinthus maasseni Staudinger, 1892
  • Triptogon roseipennis Butler, 1875
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii coreana Clark, 1937
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii koreumba Bryk, 1946
  • Smerinthus gaschkewitschii carstanjeni Staudinger, 1887
  • Smerinthus gaschkewitschii complacens Walker, 1865
  • Smerinthus gaschkewitschii echephron Boisduval, 1875

Marumba gaschkewitschii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in eastern Asia (see subspecies section).

The wingspan is 70-92 mm. Adults are on wing from mid May to late August in Korea. There are one to three generations per year.

Larvae have been recorded on Eriobotrya japonica and various Malus, Prunus and Pyrus species. It is considered a pest on Prunus mume. Most hostplant are from the Rosaceae family, but there are also records for ssp. irata feeding on Salix. There is also a confirmed records on Ziziphus mauritiana and Prunus armeniaca.

Subspecies

Marumba gaschkewitschii echephron
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii gaschkewitschii (lowlands of eastern China, from Beijing and Shandong south to the Yangtze River)
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii complacens (central and south-eastern China, from Ningxia and Shaanxi south to Sichuan, then east to Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian and south through Guangdong, Hong Kong and Guangxi to northern Vietnam)
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii echephron (Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima))
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii carstanjeni (south-eastern Russian Far East, Khabarovsk Kray, Kamchatka; Primorskiy Kray, Korean Peninsula, north-eastern China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing)
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii irata (Nepal, through north-eastern India and southern Tibet to Yunnan and northern Vietnam)
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii gressitti (Nantou Hsien, Puli, Hualien Hsien, Taroko National Park)
  • Marumba gaschkewitschii discreta (Transbaikalia, Chita (Edinenie, Onon River), central and western Mongolia (Hovd Province), Övö-Hangaj Province (Hovd), Vostochnyy Aimak)

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Marumba/gaschkewitschii.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 

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