CALLAMBULYX RUBRICOSA RUBRICOSA (Walker, 1856)

Female Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa. Photo: © BMNH Male Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa. Photo: © BMNH Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa, Jinfeng, Hainan, China. Photo: © Tony Pittaway, IZAS.

TAXONOMY

Ambulyx rubricosa Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 122. Type locality: India.


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 132mm.


Unfaded adult Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa, Hainan, China. Photo: © Roger Kendrick Unfaded adult Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa, Thailand. Photo: © Ian Kitching

ADULT BIOLOGY


FLIGHT-TIME

China: 22-25.iii (Hainan); 14.ix (Xishuangbanna).


EARLY STAGES

OVUM: Unknown.

LARVA: Unknown.

PUPA: Unknown.

Larval hostplants. Unknown.


PARASITOIDS

Unknown.


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Yunnan (Xishuangbanna area, 700m; Longling area, north of Luxi); Hainan (Jinfeng; Yinggeling, 360m).

In China, C. r. rubricosa is positively recorded only from western Yunnan and Hainan Island. Records in the Chinese literature of 'C. rubricosa' from Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guizhou are probably C. kitchingi.


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Nepal, northeastern India, southwestern China, Thailand, Vietnam and Java (Inoue et al., [1996]).


Global distribution of Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION

Holarctic; eastern Palaearctic region. Pleistocene refuge: Monocentric -- Yunnan refugium.


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