Macroglossum milvus

Macroglossum milvus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Réunion (formerly known as Île Bourbon) and Mauritius.[4]

Macroglossum milvus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Macroglossum
Species:
M. milvus
Binomial name
Macroglossum milvus
(Boisduval, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
  • Macroglossa milvus Boisduval, 1833[2]
  • Macroglossa milvus Walker, 1856[3]

The head and thorax uppersides have a dark mesial line. The abdomen upperside has four orange lateral patches, of which the first is the smallest. The thorax underside is clayish reddish cinnamon. The palpus is more grey, with a purer white side-stripe. The abdomen underside is tawny. Both wings undersides are bright tawny, with the inconspicuous distal borders a duller brown and the extreme bases more or less yellow, especially near the inner edge of the hindwing. The hindwing upperside is bright tawny, without a dark border and the extreme base is brownish black. The yellow antemedian band is ill-defined.

The larvae feed on Mussaenda arcuata, Diana fragans and Chassalia corallioides.[5]

References
  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  2. Boisduval, Jean Baptiste (1833). "M. Milvus". Faune entomologique de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice: Lépidoptères. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 78–79.
  3. Walker, Francis (1856). "Macroglossa Milvus". List of the Specimens in the Collection of the British Museum. London. pp. 90–91.
  4. Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 1–173 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Macroglossum milvus Walker, 1856". Afromoths. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  • Pinhey, E. (1962): Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa. Longmans Southern Africa, Cape Town.


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