CEPHONODES XANTHUS Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Female Cephonodes xanthus; HOLOTYPE. Photo: © BMNH Male Cephonodes xanthus. Photo: © BMNH

TAXONOMY

Cephonodes xanthus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 463 (key), 465. Type locality: [Japan:] Loo Choo Islands [Nansei Shoto, Ryukyu Archipelago], Okinawa.


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION


ADULT BIOLOGY


Feeding Cephonodes xanthus, Kyushu, Japan. Photo: © David in Miyazaki.

FLIGHT-TIME

Japan: 13.v-5.vi (Kyushu); 26.vii (Yakushima).


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA:

PUPA:

Larval hostplants.


PARASITOIDS


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

Japan: Shikoku; Kyushu (Cape Sata; Nichinan); Tanegashima; Tokara Island; Ryukyu Archipelago (Amamioshima; Okinawa; Yakushima).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Endemic to Japan.


Global distribution of Cephonodes xanthus. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION


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