CYPA DECOLOR DECOLOR (Walker, 1856)

Female Cypa decolor decolor. Photo: © BMNH Female Cypa decolor decolor. Photo: © BMNH

TAXONOMY

Smerinthus decolor Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 255. Type locality: Hindostan [India].


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 50--82mm.


Adult of Cypa decolor decolor, Bintulu Div., Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo: © Leong Tzi Ming

ADULT BIOLOGY


FLIGHT-TIME


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA:

PUPA:

Larval hostplants. Quercus and Castanopsis (Inoue, Kennett & Kitching, [1996] 1997).


PARASITOIDS


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Yunnan.


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Northeastern India, Nepal, Burma/Myanmar, southwestern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia (Sarawak) and Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan).


Global distribution of Cypa decolor decolor. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION


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