Pergesa acteus

Green pergesa hawkmoth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Pergesa
Species: P. acteus
Binomial name
Pergesa acteus
(Cramer, 1779)[1]
Synonyms

Pergesa acteus, the green pergesa hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, eastern and southern China, Taiwan, Japan (the Ryukyu Archipelago), Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi) and the Philippines (Palawan).

Description

The wingspan is 64–80 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen are purplish grey, which differs from Theretra nessus. Vertex of head and a dorso-lateral stripe to thorax and abdomen is green. Forewings are purplish grey with a green oblique central area from below apex to inner margin with some indistinct lines on it. There is an irregular dark outer area with some yellow inside it. Hindwings with anal patch and submarginal band are pointed.[2]

Pergesa acteus larva (1) and pupa (1a)

Larva greenish with a dark dorsal line, and a subdorsal pale line on thoracic somites. Fourth somite has a large ocellus, which is white ringed with brown and centered with blue and green.[3] Ocelli on fifth to tenth somites are bluish with yellow centered. Lateral area is greenish and horn is yellowish. The caterpillars feed on Alocasia odora, Syngonium podophyllum, Amorphophallus, Arisaema, Caladium, Colocasia, Dieffenbachia, Begonia, Commelina, Leea, Cissus and Vitis species.[4]

Pergesa acteus on a lemon in Panvel, India

References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
  2. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths. I. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Leong, T. M. and D'Rozario, V. "Larval Development and Metamorphosis of the Hawkmoth, Pergesa acteus (Cramer) in Singapore (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Macroglossinae)" (PDF). National University of Singapore. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Green pergesa hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic species list. Retrieved 6 July 2016.


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