Rhagastis gloriosa

Rhagastis gloriosa
	Rhagastis gloriosa ♂
	Rhagastis gloriosa ♂ △
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Rhagastis
Species:	R. gloriosa
Binomial name
	Rhagastis gloriosa; (Butler, 1875)[1]
Synonyms
	Pergesa gloriosa Butler, 1875; Rhagastis yunnanaria Chu & Wang, 1980; Rhagastis gloriosa orientalis Bryk, 1944;

Rhagastis gloriosa, the crimson mottled hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.

Distribution

It is found along the southern slopes of the Himalaya in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, north-eastern India and northern Myanmar, east to central Yunnan in China. It has also been recorded from the extreme northwest of Thailand and northern Vietnam.[2]

Description

The wingspan is 82–92 mm. It has olive-green forewings overlain by broad, dark red and partially merged transverse bands. The dorsal scaling of the antenna is brown or black from near the base to near the hook. The forewing upperside ground colour is olive green. The transverse bands are dark red, broad, irregular and partially merged. The forewing and hindwing underside ground colour is bright pink and the hindwing upperside has a median band flushed with pink.[3]

References

"CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Rhagastis gloriosa (Butler, 1875) -- Crimson mottled hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1876). "Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 9 (10): 511–644.

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[1] "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2011-10-25.

[2] Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Rhagastis gloriosa (Butler, 1875) -- Crimson mottled hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 17, 2018.

[3] Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1876). "Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 9 (10): 511–644.