| (one synonym: Oxyambulyx ceramensis Joicey & Talbot, 1921) SMERINTHINAE, SPHINGIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The moths of this species are brown with a pattern of dark lines, and a dark spot near the base the hind-margin of each forewing. The adult moths of this species are dirmorphic, the sexes being different shades of brown. The males are a paler pinkish brown. The females are dark greyish or greenish brown. The females are larger than the males with a wingspan of approximately 10 cms. The males have a wingspan of about 9 cms.
The species occurs in Australasia including:
and Australia in:
Further reading :
William Henry Miskin,
A Revision of Australian Sphingidae,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 8, Part 1 (1891), pp. 20-21.
Maxwell S. Moulds, James P. Tuttle and David A. Lane.
Hawkmoths of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 13 (2020),
pp. 66-67, Plates 75, 84.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 205.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 170.
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(updated 12 November 2011, 15 February 2015, 9 December 2020)