Nephele hespera

Nephele hespera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Nephele
Species:	N. hespera
Binomial name
Nephele hespera (Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
Sphinx hespera Fabricius, 1775 Sphinx didyma Fabricius, 1775 Sphinx quaterna Esper, 1794 Sphinx morpheus Cramer, 1777 Sphinx chiron Cramer, 1777 Perigonia obliterans Walker, 1865

Nephele hespera is a sphingid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Burma Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The wingspan is 70-86 mm. The silver markings on the wings can be present or absent in both sexes. It differs from nearly all other Nephele species in the apical hindtibial spurs having only a few, rather thin, distally situated spines. The hindbasitarsal comb is less developed than in African species of Nephele.

The larvae feed on Carissa congesta.

References

1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Nephele/hespera.html. Retrieved 2011-10-25. 

External links

• Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic

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