Taxonomic Information
List of Acherontia Laspeyres, 1809 known from India.
Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798). Throughout India.
Acherontia styx (Westwood, 1847). India: Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andaman Is.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) – Greater Death’s Head Hawkmoth: Anisomeles indica, Callicarpa arborea, Callicarpa macrophylla, Elsholtzia fruticosa, Tectona grandis, Vitex negundo (Lamiaceae), Campsis grandiflora, Spathodea campanulata (Bignoniaceae), Duranta erecta, Lantana camara, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (Verbenaceae), Lablap purpureus, Erythrina variegata, Erythrina subumbrans (Fabaceae), Jasminum arborescens (Oleaceae), Mussaenda frondosa (Rubiaceae), Nicotiana tabacum, Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae), Melia azedarach (Meliaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Sphinx lachesis Fabricius, 1798. Suppl. Ent. Syst.: 434. Type locality: "India orientali".
- Pittaway, A.R. & I.J. Kitching. Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Website accesed June 2015.
- Iyer, G. & I.J. Kitching. 2019. A preliminary study of the hawkmoth diversity (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(5): 13592–13604.Image:24. DOI.10.11609/jott.4694.11.5.13592-13604.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) – Greater Death’s Head Hawkmoth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acherontia-lachesis, accessed 2024/10/13.