Taxonomic Information
Deilephila Laspeyres, 1809 species known from India.
Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758). India: Karnataka (Channi et al., 2017), North West India (Rafi et al., 2014), Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya.
Deilephila rivularis (Boisdual, (1875). India: Uttarakhand, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh (Sidhu and Nair, 2017).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Meghalaya | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 |
- Choerocampa macromera Butler, 1875. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 7. Type locality: [Bangladesh] Silhet [Sylhet]; N. India. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90418#page/37/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. pg. 410,
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 23/13.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.pg. 41.
- Pittaway, A.R. and Kitching, I.J., 2000. Notes on selected species of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from China, Mongolia and the Korean Peninsula. Tinea, 16(3), pp.170-211.
- http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/d_elp.htm. Mentions “Further study may show that there is simply a clinal change in colour in this species through Yunnan and that Deilephila elpenor macromera is not distinct.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deilephila_elpenor
- http://en.sphingidae-museum.com/database/index.php?gen=Deilephila&spec=elpenor&subsp=
- http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/863
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758) – Large Elephant Hawkmoth. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/deilephila-elpenor, accessed 2025/11/10.