LANGIA ZENZEROIDES NAWAI Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 -- Apple hawkmoth

TAXONOMY

Langia zenzeroides nawai Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 292. Type locality: Japan: Hondo [Honshu], Lake Biwa.

[Further details on this species in Japan, as well as photos of many stages, can be found on Digital Moths of Japan as well as Moths of the southern Shikoku, Japan.]

ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

ADULT BIOLOGY

FLIGHT-TIME

Japan: 27.iii (Shikoku); 1.iv-1.v (Kyushu; Honshu); vi (Honshu).

EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA: See Moths of the southern Shikoku, Japan.

PUPA:

Larval hostplants.

PARASITOIDS

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

Japan: Hokkaido (Sapporo); Hahajima (Konokiyama); Honshu (Tarui, nr. Lake Biwa; Fukuchiyama, nr. Kyoto; Osaka; Onyu; Takefu City; Shimojyo-mura); Shikoku (Shionoe; Takaoka); Kyushu (Hikosan).

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Endemic to Japan.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION