Biology:Cephonodes hylas

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Short description: Species of moth

Cephonodes hylas
Cephonodes hylas 2011-11-06.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Cephonodes
Species:
C. hylas
Binomial name
Cephonodes hylas
(Linnaeus, [1771])
Synonyms
  • Sphinx hylas Linnaeus, [1771]

Cephonodes hylas, the coffee bee hawkmoth, pellucid hawk moth or coffee clearwing, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771. A widely distributed moth, it is found in the Near East, Middle East, Africa, India , Sri Lanka, Japan , Southeast Asia and Australia .[1][2]

Description

It has transparent wings and a stout body like a bumble bee.[3] Its wingspan of 45–73  mm. Its marginal borders are very narrow and black. The abdomen varies in colour from yellow to green. Nominate subspecies has bright reddish 3rd and 4th abdominal segments. Larva has two colour forms, green and blackish. In greenish form, the body is greenish with a white-bordered blue dorsal line and a whitish sub-dorsal line ending in a yellow streak at the base of the horn. The head and spiracles are blue.[4] In the dark-coloured form, the head is brown or pale orange and the rest of the body is smoky black. Pupa dark brown.

Colourful-hawk-moth
Pellucid hawk moth with clear wings, hovering and sucking nectar from flowers using proboscis, Hyderabad, India.

  • Dorsal male
    (from the collection of the MHNT)

  • Ventral male
    (coll. MHNT)

  • Dorsal female
    (coll. MHNT)

  • Ventral female
    (coll. MHNT)

Ecology

Larvae are sluggish but eat very greedily and continuously. Its larvae feed on Burchellia, Gardenia, Kraussia, Pavetta and Vangueria species. Parasitoids such as Ooencyrtus papilionis and Blepharipa zebrine are found on larva.[5][6]

Subspecies

  • Cephonodes hylas hylas - (Linnaeus 1771) (Sri Lanka to China and Japan)
  • Cephonodes hylas australis - Kitching & Cadiou, 2000 (Australia)
  • Cephonodes hylas melanogaster - Cadiou, 1998 (Indonesia)
  • Cephonodes hylas virescens - (Wallengren, 1865) (Ethiopian Region including Madagascar and the Seychelles)

  • Cephonodes hylas larvae on Catunaregam spinosa in Hyderabad, India

  • Cephonodes hylas larvae on Catunaregam spinosa in Hyderabad

  • Cephonodes hylas larvae on Catunaregam spinosa in Hyderabad

  • Cephonodes hylas larvae on Catunaregam spinosa in Hyderabad

  • Pellucid hawk moth in Bangalore, India

References

  1. ↑ "Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)". http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/666. Retrieved 8 July 2016. 
  2. ↑ "Cephonodes hylas". http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SPHINGIIDAE/MACROGLOSSIDAE/cephonodes%20hylas.htm. Retrieved 8 July 2016. 
  3. ↑ "Coffee Hawk Moth (Cephonodes hylas)". http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Coffee-Hawk-Moth/Cephonodes/hylas.html. Retrieved 8 July 2016. 
  4. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180068#page/5/mode/1up. 
  5. ↑ Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Cephonodes hylas hylas (Linnaeus, 1771) -- Coffee clearwing; Coffee bee hawkmoth". http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/c_hyl.htm. Retrieved December 14, 2018. 
  6. ↑ Herbison-Evans, Don; Crossley, Stella (15 February 2015). "Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771) Coffee Hawk Moth". http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sphi/hylas.html. Retrieved 18 November 2018. 


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