Dolbina inexacta

Dolbina inexacta
Dolbina inexacta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Dolbina
Species: D. inexacta
Binomial name
Dolbina inexacta
(Walker, 1856)[1]
Synonyms
  • Macrosila inexacta Walker, 1856
  • Meganoton khasianum Rothschild, 1894
  • Dolbina inexacta olivascens (Mell, 1922)
  • Dolbina inexacta sinica Closs, 1914

Dolbina inexacta is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Pakistan, northern and central India and Nepal across Myanmar, southern China, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam to Taiwan.[2]

The wingspan is 55-86 mm. The thorax, legs and wings undersides are brown. There are large black mesial patches on the abdomen underside. The discal interspace on the forewing upperside is sometimes pinkish grey between the discal cell and the hind margin.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ligustrum robustum in China and Olea, Lonicera, Ligustrum, Fraxinus and Osmanthus species elsewhere.

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Dolbina/inexacta.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
  2. ^ Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/d_ine.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
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