Vine Hawk Moth
S2, Adult Female, Antennae, profile
Vine Hawk Moth
S2, Adult Female, Antennae Tip
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| Vine Hawk Moth S2, Adult Female, Antennae, profile | | Vine Hawk Moth S2, Adult Female, Antennae Tip | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Hawk Moth (Bombycoidea:Sphingidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Vine Hawk Moth (Hippotion celerio)| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Adult Female, Antennae, no hairs🔎 | Thank you Stewart Tomlinson & Dr Bostjan Dvorak for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~40mm long & ~72mm wingspan. Note the fine hairs on the dark side of the antennae, making S1 a male. They are missing on S2 making it a female. These fine hairs, are quite unlike bipectinate antennae. They seem to form 2 "fans" per segment. There seems to be no other visual differences between the genders. Often the body shapes are different, but that's not the case here. Also note the stunning hot pink hindwings & orange racing stripes down the side of the thorax Unusally, the female's right hindwing here is ontop of the forewing, giving us a great opportunity to see the full hindwing.
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