Acosmerycoides

Acosmerycoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Subfamily: Macroglossinae
Genus: Acosmerycoides
Mell, 1922
Species: A. harterti
Binomial name
Acosmerycoides harterti
(Rothschild, 1895)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ampelophaga harterti Rothschild, 1895
  • Ampelophaga takamukui Matsumura, 1927
  • Acosmerycoides horishana Matsumura, 1927
  • Acosmerycoides insignata Mell, 1922
  • Clanis obscura Mell, 1958
  • Rhagastis leucocraspis Hampson, 1910

Acosmerycoides is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing only one species Acosmerycoides harterti, which is found from Assam in India, eastwards across southern China to Taiwan and south to Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.[2]

The wingspan is 80-90 mm.

The larvae feed on Vitis species.

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Acosmeryx/tenggarensis.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26. 
  2. ^ Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/a_har.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-26.