Rhagastis olivacea
Appearance
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Rhagastis |
Species: | R. olivacea
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Rhagastis olivacea is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Distribution
It is found from north-western India across Nepal, northern Myanmar, northern Thailand and southern China to northern Vietnam.[2]
Description
The wingspan is 72–92 mm. It can be distinguished from all other Rhagastis species by the yellowish-green ground colour of the forewing upperside with narrow and indistinct reddish transverse lines and bands, and a shuttle-shaped marginal area bordered irregularly with bluish-white scales, most strongly at the apex and tornus.
Adults are lachryphagous (meaning they drink tears).[3]
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Impatiens species in India.
References
- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bänziger, H. 1992. Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae). Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 40: 91–102.