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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
Acherontia styx (Westwood, 1847) – Lesser Death's Head Hawkmoth: Anisomeles indica, Tectona grandis, Clerodendrum indicum, Clerodendrum phlomidis, Vitex negundo, Vitex megapotamica (Lamiaceae), Lablab purpureus, Vigna unguiculata (Fabaceae), Jasminum arborescens, Ligustrum lucidum (Oleaceae), Millingtonia hortensis, Spathodea campanulata, Stereospermum tetragonum, Tecoma stans (Bignoniaceae), Solanum melongena (Solanaceae), Citharexylum spinosum (Verbenaceae), Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae), Sesamum indicum (Pedaliaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory. Website accessed July 2015
- Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic (including Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and Japan.). Website accessed July 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 23. DOI.10.11609/jott.4694.11.5.13592-13604.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Acherontia styx (Westwood, 1847) – Lesser Death's Head Hawkmoth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acherontia-styx, accessed 2024/04/18.