Clanis undulosa

Clanis undulosa
Subsp. gigantea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Sphingidae
Genus:Clanis
Species: C. undulosa
Binomial name
Clanis undulosa
Moore, 1879[1]
Synonyms
  • Clanis gigantea Rothschild, 1894
  • Clanis undulosa jankowskii Gehlen, 1932
  • Clanis undulosa roseata Mell, 1922
  • Clanis undulosa acuta Mell, 1922
  • Clanis undulosa hoenei Mell, 1935
  • Clanis undulosa pallescens Mell, 1922

Clanis undulosa is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The nominate subspecies is found in the southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and north-eastern China, as far as south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei. South from Sichuan (Baoxing), Hubei, Jiangxi (Guling) and Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan), it is replaced by ssp. gigantea, which ranges west to Nepal and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia.

Description

The wingspan is 100–120 mm for ssp. undulosa and 118–160 mm for ssp. gigantea. Adults of the nominate subspecies are on wing from June to early August in Korea.

Biology

The food plants of the nominate subspecies are unknown. The larvae of ssp. gigantea have been recorded on Lespedeza viatorum in Guangdong and on Lespedeza thompsoni in north-eastern India.

Subspecies

  • Clanis undulosa undulosa (southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China, as far south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei)
  • Clanis undulosa gigantea Rothschild, 1894 (South from Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Zhejiang west to Nepal and north-eastern India and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia)

References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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