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词条 Cephonodes hylas
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  1. Description

  2. Ecology

  3. Subspecies

  4. References

{{Italic title}}{{Taxobox
| name = Coffee bee hawkmoth
| image = Cephonodes hylas 2011-11-06.jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Sphingidae
| genus = Cephonodes
| species = C. hylas
| binomial = Cephonodes hylas
| binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, [1771])
| synonyms = * Sphinx hylas Linnaeus, [1771]
}}Cephonodes hylas, the coffee bee hawkmoth, pellucid hawk moth or coffee clearwing, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771. A widely distributed moth, it is found in the Near East, Middle East, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia.[1][2]

Description

It has transparent wings and a stout body like a bumble bee.[3] Its wingspan of 45–73 mm. Its marginal borders are very narrow and black. Abdomen varies in colour from yellow to green. Nominate subspecies has bright reddish 3rd and 4th abdominal segments. Larva have two colour forms, green and blackish. In greenish form, body greenish with a white-bordered blue dorsal line and whitish sub-dorsal line ending in a yellow streak at base of horn. Head and spiracles are blue.[4] In the dark-coloured form, head brown or pale orange and rest of body smoky black. Pupa dark brown.

Ecology

Larvae are sluggish but eat very greedily and continuously. Its larvae feed on Burchellia, Gardenia, Kraussia, Pavetta and Vangueria species. Parasitoids such as Ooencyrtus papilionis and Blepharipa zebrine are found on larva.[5][6]

Subspecies

  • Cephonodes hylas hylas (Sri Lanka to China and Japan)
  • Cephonodes hylas australis - Kitching & Cadiou, 2000 (Australia)
  • Cephonodes hylas melanogaster - Cadiou, 1998 (Indonesia)
  • Cephonodes hylas virescens - (Linnaeus 1771) (Ethiopian Region including Madagascar and the Seychelles)

References

1. ^{{cite web | url=http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/666 | title=Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771) | website=Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory | accessdate=8 July 2016}}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SPHINGIIDAE/MACROGLOSSIDAE/cephonodes%20hylas.htm | title=Cephonodes hylas | website=African Moths | accessdate=8 July 2016}}
3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Coffee-Hawk-Moth/Cephonodes/hylas.html | title=Coffee Hawk Moth (Cephonodes hylas) | website=OzAnimals Australian Wildlife | accessdate=8 July 2016}}
4. ^{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180068#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=1892 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
5. ^{{cite web |last1=Pittaway |first1=A. R. |last2=Kitching |first2=I. J. |date=2018 |url=http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/c_hyl.htm |title=Cephonodes hylas hylas (Linnaeus, 1771) -- Coffee clearwing; Coffee bee hawkmoth |website=Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic |accessdate=December 14, 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |last-author-amp=yes |date=15 February 2015 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sphi/hylas.html |title=Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771) Coffee Hawk Moth |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=18 November 2018}}
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