Opistoclanis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Opistoclanis Jordan, 1929 |
Species: | O. hawkeri |
Binomial name | |
Opistoclanis hawkeri (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)[1] |
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Opistoclanis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing only one species Opistoclanis hawkeri, which is known from China (Yunnan), north-eastern Thailand, Laos and northern Vietnam, where it has been recorded at altitudes between 888 and 2,800 meters.[2]
Adults are on wing from late March to early May at the end of the dry season in Thailand.