Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875 is a animal in the Sphingidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875

Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875

Macroglossum pyrrhosticta is a moth species with a 42–56 mm wingspan, found in Asia and introduced to Hawaii.

Family
Genus
Macroglossum
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875

Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875 has a wingspan ranging from 42 to 56 mm. In Hawaii, adult individuals are active on the wing from April to August; in Korea, adults are active from late June to late October. This species is naturally distributed across Sri Lanka, eastern India, Nepal, Thailand, central and eastern China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, the southern Russian Far East, Taiwan, the Philippines (Luzon), eastern Malaysia, and Indonesia. It has also been introduced to Hawaii as a non-native species.

Photo: (c) Shipher (士緯) Wu (吳), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Sphingidae Macroglossum

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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