Taxonomic Information
List of Daphnis Hubner [1819] known from India.
Daphnis hypothous (Cramer, 1780), Jharkhand (Singh and Navneet, 2016), Karnataka (Ghoparde et al., 2013), Assam, Nepal (Amritpal et al., 2015).
Daphnis layardii Moore, 1882, India (Hampson, 1892).
Daphnis minima Butler, 1977, Karnataka (Kitching, 2020).
Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758), Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Punjab (Amritpal et al., 2015).
Daphnis placida (Walker, 1856), Andaman and Nicobar islands (Chandra and Rajan, 2004).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Daphnis hypothous is similar to this species.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 17 |
Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oleander Hawkmoth: Holarrhena pubescens, Nerium oleander, Tabernaemontana divaricata, Rauvolfia verticillata (Apocynaceae), Jasminum sambac (Oleaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic (including Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and Japan.). Daphnis nerii website accessed July 2015
- 2. 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. Pg:13596; Image 11. DOI.10.11609/jott.4694.11.5.13592-13604.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oleander 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/daphnis-nerii, accessed 2024/10/13.