Nephele hespera (Fabricius, 1775)

Kaustubh, Kumar, Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul & Mahboob Hassan, S. M., 2022, A preliminary Checklist of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from Saranda forest division, Jharkhand, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (4), pp. 433-445 : 438

12. Nephele hespera (Fabricius, 1775) (Plate 2: Figure 12 ) Material Examined: India: Jharkhand, Saranda Forest, B. B. Mines (22˚10.030’ N; 85˚21.299’ E), 523.9masl,

13.vi.2017 - 1ex., Kiriburu (22˚07.066 ‘ N; 85˚17.831 ‘ E) ,

897.7 masl, 06.viii.2019 - 1ex. (Coll. by K. Kaustubh) .

Distribution: India: Andaman Islands, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan and Pakistan south and east across Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, to southern China, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Papua New Guinea and Australia (Chandra, et al., 2014, Irungbam, et al., 2021).

Host Plant: Carissa carandas , Carissa edulis and Carissa spinarum (Robinson, et al., 2001).

Figures

Figures 7-13. 7. Theretra oldenlandiae; 8. Pergesa acteus; 9. Acosmeryx anceus, 10. Acosmeryx shervilli; 11. Hippotion boerhaviae; 12. Nephele hespera; 13. Marumba dyras.