Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Sphingidae → subfamily Sphinginae → tribe Acherontiini → genus Acherontia → species Acherontia lachesis

Species name(s)

Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) = Sphinx lachesis Fabricius, 1798 = atra (Huwe, 1895) = Spectrum charon Billberg, 1820 = circe Moore, [1858] = fuscapex Bryk, 1944 = Acherontia lethe Westwood, 1847 = Acherontia morta Hübner, [1819] = pallida Dupont, 1941 = radiata Niepelt, 1931 = Acherontia satanas Boisduval, 1836 = sojejimae Matsumura, 1909 = submarginalis Dupont, 1941. [3, 9]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Indo-Malayan.

Russia regions

#40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Regions of the Russian Federation: Seaside. [3].
East Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Burma, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea [134].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Solanaceae, Verbenaceae, Fabaceae, Oleaceae, Bignoniaceae, Labiatae [134].

Authors

Photos: Igor Sakhno.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

References

[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[134] http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/

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