True clypeus less than half length of head, apex acute, sides slightly concave false clypeus with apex broadly rounded, sides angled slightly outwards labrum half length of clypeus and as broad as clypeus, narrowing slightly frontad, sides convex ligula slightly longer than labrum, kidney-shaped. Body oily-looking black with a broad, velvet black dorso-lateral stripe. In the dark-coloured form the head, the anal flap and claspers greenish-ochreous shield the same, with yellow tubercles. Horn black legs and prolegs dark red anal flap and claspers dark green with paler tubercles spiracles dark yellow (Bell & Scott, 1937). A narrow, black band runs along the margins of these segments, and the is an oval lateral black spot on 12. There is a broad, dark brown dorsal stripe, a white dorso-lateral stripe, and a black pear-shaped spot below it on 3 to 12. Head dark green, segment 2 green, the shield darker green with yellow tubercles the remaining segments yellowish-green. Surface of head, shield, horn, anal flap and claspers tuberculate the hairs of the first instar still present but proportionally much shorter.

Horn very long, straight, sharply pointed. In the fourth instar, segment 2 of greater diameter than head or segment 3, the saddle-shaped shield raised above the surface of the segment. In the third instar, head and a shield on segment 2 orange, rest of body as above or oily-looking black. In the second instar, similar to first instar but segment 2 yellow, rest of body green with black, transverse lines, or smoky-black. Head and body pale yellow horn black with some red at the base. Horn shiny and covered densely with bifid hairs. Body covered with bifid hairs, stem and branches both 0.05mm. long, shortly bifid, the branches 0.01mm. In the first instar, head round body cylindrical horn long, straight, bluntly bifid. Polychromatic, but mainly green or brownish-black. Laid singly or in pairs on the underside/uppserside of young leaves near the growing tip, or on shoot tips. Oval (0.75 x 0.85mm), shiny and very smooth. OVUM: Pale blue-green or grass-green when freshly laid, becoming pale canary yellow with age. (1999) give early July until late September as the flight period in Korea. Japan: 17.iii (Ryukyu Archipelago) 17.iv-vii (Kyushu) 26.iv (Ryukyu Archipelago) vi-vii (Honshu) 12.vii (Kyushu) vii-viii (Ryukyu Archipelago) 7.viii (Hokkaido) 24.viii-17.x (Honshu) ix-x (Ryukyu Archipelago). Bred females do not readily attract wild males, but the sexes pair freely in captivity (Bell & Scott, 1937).Ĭhina: iii-v (Hong Kong) v-vii (Hainan) vi (Sichuan) vi (Guangdong) vii (Jiangsu Zhejiang Hong Kong) viii (Guangdong) 5-18.ix (Hong Kong) 15.xi (Hong Kong) xii (Hong Kong). They are very active in the morning and evening and dart rapidly from flower to flower, as well as ovipositing on the wing. They make a deep humming note when slightly alarmed, as do Macroglossum moths. The moths are rather slow in taking to the wing, but when they do so the flight is very rapid.

Common in urban parks and gardens where Gardenia is grown. Inner face of right valve with a poorly developed median longitudinal groove, lacking inwardly directed hairs, the ventral margin of which is produced dorsally as a low fold.Ī day-flying moth attracted to the flowers of Duranta erecta in Hong Kong. Distal margin of left valve strongly concave dorsal lobe broad and flat, outer margin covered in minute, peg-like setae ventral lobe much shorter than dorsal lobe or absent, inner surface lacking long, upwardly directed setae.

Gnathos without processes, represented by a low rounded ridge. Uncus twisted, apex directed to right left lobe reduced to a plate visible in ventral or lateral view from the left right lobe strongly developed, forming a long, obtusely pointed hook, concave dorsally and strongly expanded anterior to the apical hook. These come off in a little cloud when the wings are rapidly vibrated before the first flight (Bell & Scott, 1937). When the moth first emerges, which it usually does in the early morning, the hyaline portion of the wings is covered densely with greyish scales. Underside of head, thorax white or slightly yellowish (but never orange as in Cephonodes picus) abdominal tuft black. Foretibia lacking a pronounced apical claw. Upperside of abdomen with a black and dark red belt tergite 6 with a black median patch, which often has some red scales anal tuft green. Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic - Cephonodes hylas hylasĬEPHONODES HYLAS HYLAS (Linnaeus, 1771) - Coffee clearwing Coffee bee hawkmoth

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