Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798)

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 : 442-443

22. Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) (Plate 4: Figure 21 )

Material Examined: India: Jharkhand, Saranda Forest, Kiriburu (22˚07.066’N; 85˚17.831’E), 897.7 masl, 14.vi.2017 - 1ex., 12.xi.2017 - 3 ex.; Tholkobad (22˚08.219’N; 85˚11.035’E), 576 masl, 17.vi.2017 - 1ex. (Coll. by K. Kaustubh) .

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Eastern Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Southern Japan, Papua New Guinea, The Hawaiian Islands, Moluccas and the Philippines (Chandra, et al., 2014, Pittaway and Kitching, 2020, Singh, et al., 2021).

Host plants: Mentioned in Robinson et al. (2001).

Figures

Figures 20-25. 20. Polyptychus dentatus 21. Acherontia Lachesis 22. Psilogramma menephron 23. Agrius convolvuli 24. Meganoton nyctiphanes 25. Daphnis hypothous.