Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798)

Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh & Fric, Zdeněk Faltýnek, 2021, Checklist of the family Sphingidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) from Shirui Hills, Manipur, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1), pp. 173-194 : 180

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/153911

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5768783-1612-E04D-FF05-D6A2FBAA4B40

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798)
status

 

13. Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL - Greater Death’s Head Hawkmoth ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 : M)

1798. Sphinx lachesis Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst. : 434.

Material examined: INDIA, Manipur, Ukhrul District, Shirui Hills, Site 4 (25.1112ºN 94.4534ºE), 2425 m asl GoogleMaps ,

25.vii.2019 - 1♂, IJ1181, coll. J.S. Irungbam.

Wingspan: ♂, 120 mm. Forewing length: 56 mm.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands ( Chandra and Kumar, 1992); Arunachal Pradesh ( Athreya, 2013); Assam ( Arandhara et al., 2017); Jammu and Kashmir ( Sanyal et al., 2018); Jharkhand ( Sambath, 2014); Karnataka (Melichar et al., 2018); Madhya Pradesh ( Chandra et al., 2013, Choubey et al., 2017); Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra ( Gurule and Nikam, 2013), Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland ( Shubhalaxmi et al., 2011); Meghalaya ( Mandal and Ghosh, 1999); Odisha ( Mandal and Maulik, 1991); Punjab ( Pathania et al., 2014); Sikkim ( Dudgeon, 1886); Tamil Nadu ( Kathirvelu et al., 2019, Iyer and Kitching, 2019); Uttarakhand ( Smetacek, 1994, 2008); West Bengal ( Shah et al., 2018). Elsewhere: Eastern Pakistan ( Rafi et al., 2014); Nepal ( Kishida, 1998); Bhutan ( Irungbam and Irungbam, 2019); Thailand ( Inoue et al., 1997); Laos ( Kishida and Yano, 2020); Vietnam ( Kitching and Spitzer, 1995); Hong Kong ( Kendrick, 2002; Kendrick and Young, 2014); Myanmar, China, Taiwan ( Fu et al. 2013; Wu et al., 2020); Malaysia ( Holloway, 1987); Indonesia, southern Japan, Papua New Guinea, the Hawaiian Islands, Moluccas ( Holloway, 1987); the Philippines ( Hogenes, 1998).

Larval host-plants: Erythrina spp. ( Fabaceae ), Jasminum spp. ( Oleaceae ), Solanum tuberosum ( Solanaceae ), Nicotiana tabacum ( Solanaceae ), Tectona grandis ( Lamiaceae ), Datura sp. ( Solanaceae ) and other plants ( Scott, 1941).

Remarks: The species is recorded here for the first time from Manipur.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Acherontia

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