Biology:Cephonodes picus

Short description: Species of moth

Cephonodes picus
Male dorsal
Male ventral
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Cephonodes
Species:	C. picus
Binomial name
Cephonodes picus (Cramer, 1777)
Synonyms
Sphinx picus Cramer, 1777 Sesia cunninghami Walker, 1856 Macroglossa yunx Boisduval, 1875

Cephonodes picus is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics, including India , the Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines , the Torres Strait Islands, Brunei and the Chagos Archipelago.

The wingspan is about 50 mm. The wings have uniformly narrow opaque edges. The abdomen is brown with a dark band across one abdominal segment and a dark dorsal mark on the adjacent segment.

The larvae have been recorded on Jasminum, Adina, Coffea, Gardenia, Guettarda, Morinda, Pavetta, Randia, Tarema and Nephelium. They are green with a bluish white dorsal line and white dorsolateral ones.

External links

• Barnett, L. K.; Emms, C. W.; Holloway, J. D. (July 1, 1999). "The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography". Journal of Natural History 33 (7): 1021–1038. doi:10.1080/002229399300065. 
• "Cephonodes picus (Cramer, 1777)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
• Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Cephonodes picus Cramer". http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-3/sphingidae/sphingidae_17_1.php. Retrieved January 11, 2019. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2329958 entry