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Daphnis hypothous - Wikipedia

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Jade hawkmoth

Live adult
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Daphnis
Species:	D. hypothous
Binomial name
*Daphnis hypothous* (Cramer, 1780)^[1]
Synonyms
Sphinx hypothous Cramer, 1780

Daphnis hypothous, the jade hawkmoth, is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is a rare vagrant to the Western Palaearctic realm.^[2] During the last hundred years a number have been discovered within the Middle East and one was even found in Scotland late in the 20th century but this was probably imported as a pupa with cargo.^[3]

Description

The wingspan is 86–120 mm. It is a very fast flyer and is attracted to both sweet-smelling flowers and light. It differs from Daphnis nerii in having the head and collar uniformly dark purplish brown. Thorax and first two abdominal segments are dark green with a white fringe to the first segment. Other abdominal segments are dark olive green with the streaks and spots as in D. nerii.^[4]

Wings are similar to D. nerii but very much darker on both dorsal and ventral side. A white spot is present at the apex of forewing and at the end of cell of forewing ventral side.

Larva is green with yellow dots at its sides. There is a dark dorsal line, a subdorsal purple-red band, edged with yellow on thoracic somites and a blue ocellus on the third somite. Horn is purplish brown with white tubercles. Before changing to pupa, the larva becomes blotched with dark red.^[5]

*Daphnis hypothous* larva (2) and pupa (2a)

Caterpillars can be found on Breonia, Cinchona, Ixora, Pavetta, Uncaria, Wendlandia and Alstonia plants.^[6]

Daphnis hypothous hypothous ♂
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Daphnis hypothous hypothous ♀
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Subspecies

Daphnis hypothous hypothous (Indonesia including the Andaman Islands and Seram)
Daphnis hypothous crameri Eitschberger & Melichar, 2010 (South and South-East Asia)

Gallery

from Laos
Caterpillar
ssp. crameri
yellow-brown form

Related species

Daphnis nerii, white spot is absent at the apex of forewing.

References

^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
^ Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Daphnis hypothous crameri Eitschberger & Melichar, 2010 -- Jade hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
^ Pittaway, A. R. (2018). "Daphnis hypothous (Cramer, 1780)". Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
^ "Daphnis hypothous Cramer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (27 November 2015). "Daphnis hypothous (Cramer, 1780)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

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Daphnis hypothous hypothous Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic

Taxon identifiers
Daphnis hypothous	Wikidata: Q138266 Wikispecies: Daphnis hypothous AFD: Daphnis_hypothous BioLib: 403685 BOLD: 18255 CoL: 345MP EoL: 406209 EPPO: DEILHY GBIF: 1862394 iNaturalist: 244926 NCBI: 1086273 Open Tree of Life: 3094953

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