Daphnis minima Butler, 1876 -

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); Sri Lanka.
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

http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/d_pla.htm [accessed 26 September 2020]
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sphi/placida.html [accessed 26 September 2020]

Daphnis minima Butler 1876 is very similar to Daphnis placida placida but smaller. Forewing upperside very similar to Daphnis placida placida but median olive-green band less oblique, wider posteriorly and narrower before middle.  (http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/828) [accessed 26 September 2020]. Reported from Andaman and Nicobar Is. in India.

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh111
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu1
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total211
  1. OD: Daphnis minima Butler, 1876. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 9:573, Pl. 92/5. 
  2. Bell, T.R.D & F. B. Scott. 1937. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 5. Taylor & Francis, London. Sphingidae 537p - 1 folding map - 15 pl. Pg. 274, #82 a,b as Deilephila minima. 
  3. Melichar, T., J. Haxaire, M. Rezác & H. B. Manjunatha. 2018. A field guide to Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of the state of Karnataka, India. Published by Ekoloicke centrum Orlov, o.p.s, Orlov 79, 26101 Pribram, Czech Republic, 110 pp. Pg. 55.
  4. http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/828 [accessed 26 September 2020]
  5. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=101171 [accessed 26 September 2020]

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Daphnis minima Butler, 1876 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/daphnis-minima, accessed 2024/03/28.