Sphingulus
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| Sphingulus | |
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| File:Sphingulus mus MHNT CUT 2010 0 317 Ussuri, Gornotajosnoje, Russia, male dorsal.jpg | |
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| File:Sphingulus mus MHNT CUT 2010 0 317 Ussuri, Gornotajosnoje, Russia, male ventral.jpg | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Tribe: | Sphingulini |
| Genus: | Sphingulus Staudinger, 1877 |
| Species: | S. mus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sphingulus mus Staudinger, 1887[1]
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Sphingulus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing only one species, Sphingulus mus, the murine hawkmoth.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Is found from the south-eastern part of the Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula south into eastern China.[2]
Description
[edit | edit source]The wingspan is 57–60 mm.
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Sphingulus mus ♀
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Biology
[edit | edit source]In northern China, there is one generation per year with adults on wing in May and June. In north-eastern China and the Russian Far East, there is probably partial second generation with adults on wing in July and August in some years. In Korea, adults have been recorded from June to July.
Larvae have been reared on Fraxinus species.
References
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