w Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic - Macroglossum mediovitta

MACROGLOSSUM MEDIOVITTA Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Female Macroglossum mediovitta. Photo: © BMNH Male Macroglossum mediovitta. Photo: © BMNH

TAXONOMY

Macroglossum mediovitta Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 620 (key), 626 (key), 647. Type locality: [Japan, Ryukyu Islands,] Okinawa.


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Feeding Macroglossum mediovitta, Japan. Photo: © Awoki Itzuzai.

ADULT BIOLOGY

Attracted to the flowers of Duranta erecta at dawn and dusk.


FLIGHT-TIME

China: 11.viii-26.ix (Hong Kong). Japan: vii-ix (Ryukyu Archipelago).


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA:


Full-grown larva of Macroglossum mediovitta, Neihu, Taipei City, Taiwan. Photo: © Shipher Wu. Full-grown larva of Macroglossum mediovitta, Neihu, Taipei City, Taiwan. Photo: © Shipher Wu.

PUPA:

Larval hostplants. Unknown.


PARASITOIDS

Unknown.


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Hong Kong.

Taiwan: Taipei Hsien (Fushan); Taipei (Neihu).

Japan: Ryukyu Archipelago (Okinawa, Nago).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

From southern Japan (Ryukyu Archipelago), Taiwan and southern China (Hong Kong) south through Thailand (?one specimen only), Malaysia (Peninsular, Sarawak) to Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan).


Global distribution of Macroglossum mediovitta. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION


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