Parum
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Tribe: | Smerinthini |
Genus: | Parum Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 |
Species: | P. colligata
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Binomial name | |
Parum colligata | |
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Parum is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing only one species, Parum colligata.
Distribution
Is found from Korea and Japan south throughout eastern and central China and Taiwan to Vietnam, northern Thailand and north-eastern Myanmar.[2]
Description
The wingspan is 69–90 mm.
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Parum colligata ♂
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Parum colligata ♂ △
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Parum colligata ♀
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Parum colligata ♀ △
Biology
There are one or two generations per year in northern China, with adults on wing from May to July. Farther south, there may be up to four generations. Adults have been recorded from mid May to late September in Korea. The larvae have been recorded feeding on Broussonetia kaempferi, Broussonetia papyrifera and Morus alba in Guangdong. Other recorded foodplants include Broussonetia kazinoki and Maclura fruticosa.
References
- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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