Clanis undulosa

Clanis undulosa
Clanis undulosa gigantea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Clanis
Species:	C. undulosa
Binomial name
Clanis undulosa Moore, 1879
Synonyms
Clanis gigantea Rothschild, 1894 Clanis undulosa jankowskii Gehlen, 1932 Clanis undulosa roseata Mell, 1922 Clanis undulosa acuta Mell, 1922 Clanis undulosa hoenei Mell, 1935 Clanis undulosa pallescens Mell, 1922

Clanis undulosa, the wavy velvet hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1879. The nominate subspecies is found in the southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and north-eastern China, as far as south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei. South from Sichuan (Baoxing), Hubei, Jiangxi (Guling) and Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan), it is replaced by ssp. gigantea, which ranges west to Nepal and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia.

Description

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  Male dorsal view
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  Male ventral view
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  Female dorsal view
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  Female ventral view

The wingspan is 100–120 mm for subspecies C. u. undulosa and 118–160 mm for subspecies C. u. gigantea. Adults of the nominate subspecies are on wing from June to early August in Korea.

Biology

The food plants of the nominate subspecies are unknown. The larvae of subspecies C. u. gigantea have been recorded on Lespedeza viatorum in Guangdong and on Lespedeza thompsoni in north-eastern India.

Subspecies

• Clanis undulosa undulosa (southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China, as far south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei)
• Clanis undulosa gigantea Rothschild, 1894 (South from Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Zhejiang west to Nepal and north-eastern India and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia)

External links

• Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Clanis undulosa undulosa Moore, 1879 -- Wavy velvet hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
• Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Clanis undulosa gigantea Rothschild, 1894 -- Wavy velvet hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 18, 2018.