Amplypterus panopus

Mango hawkmoth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Amplypterus
Species:	A. panopus
Binomial name
	Amplypterus panopus; (Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
	Sphinx panopus Cramer, [1779] ; Calymnia panopus (Cramer, [1779]) ; Composogene panopus (Cramer, [1779]) ; Calymnia pavonica Moore, 1877 ;

Amplypterus panopus, the mango hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found in Sri Lanka, southern and northern India (including the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands), Nepal, Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia (to Sulawesi) and the Philippines.^[2]

Description

The wingspan is 130–168 mm.

Male dorsal view
Male ventral view
Female dorsal
Female ventral

Biology

Adults are on wing in March, April, June, August and December in Hong Kong.

Larvae have been recorded on Dracontomelum dao, Mangifera indica, Rhus, Durio, Calophyllum and Garcinia.

In The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I, the species is described as follows:

Head, thorax, and terminal segments of abdomen golden brown; the proximal segments pale. Fore wing purplish flesh-color; some brown waved lines near the base; then an oblique band; some waved brown lines from the costa to lower angle of cell; an oblique post-medial band; a highly waved and irregular whitish submarginal line; a dark ocellus near outer angle. Hind wing flesh-color, the outer area brown; the disk suffused with pink; antemedial, medial, and two postmedial lines, the last two angled below the costa. Underside much mottled with yellow. The Andaman and Burmese form pavonina is much darker, especially the basal segments of the abdomen. Larva grey and granulose, with a subdorsal yellow spotted line from the head to the horn; the 4th to 10th somites with oblique yellow lateral stripes; horn tuberculate.
— The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I^[3]

Subspecies

Amplypterus panopus panopus
Amplypterus panopus hainanensis Eitschberger, 2006 (Hainan)

References

^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
^ Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Amplypterus panopus (Cramer, 1779) -- Mango hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2011-10-26.

[mangohawkmoth-2] Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Amplypterus panopus (Cramer, 1779) -- Mango hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 13, 2018.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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