Sphinx ligustri
Privet hawk moth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Sphinx |
Species: | S. ligustri |
Binomial name | |
Sphinx ligustri | |
Synonyms | |
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Sphinx ligustri, known as the privet hawk moth, is a species of moth found in most of the Palearctic ecozone.
Description
It has a 12 centimetres (4.7 in) wingspan (generally deflexed at rest), and is found in urban areas, forests and woodlands.
The male privet hawk-moth can make a hissing sound, if disturbed, by rubbing together a set of scales and spines at the end of its abdomen.
The larvae are usually found between July and August: and bury themselves in the earth when preparing to become a pupa. They then fly in the following June.[2]
Diet
As its name describes, the caterpillars feed on privets, as well as ash trees, lilacs, jasmine, and a number of other plants.
Gallery
- Male, dorsal side - MHNT
- Male, ventral side - MHNT
- Female, dorsal side - MHNT
- Female, ventral side - MHNT
- Caterpillar
- Pupating
- Pupa
- Pupa, caterpillar, and adult
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ Donovan, Edward (1792). The natural history of British insects: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope: the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. London. p. 79.
External links
Media related to Sphinx ligustri at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Sphinx ligustri at Wikispecies - Privet hawk moth on UKMoths
- Pittaway, Tony, Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic, retrieved 2017-03-18
- The entry for this species on Australian Museum
- Lepiforum.de
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