Cephonodes picus

Cephonodes picus
	Male dorsal
	Male ventral
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Cephonodes
Species:	C. picus
Binomial name
	Cephonodes picus; (Cramer, 1777)
Synonyms
	Sphinx picus Cramer, 1777; Sesia cunninghami Walker, 1856; Macroglossa yunx Boisduval, 1875;

Cephonodes picus is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics, including India, the Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Torres Strait Islands, Brunei and the Chagos Archipelago.

The wingspan is about 50 mm. The wings have uniformly narrow opaque edges. The abdomen is brown with a dark band across one abdominal segment and a dark dorsal mark on the adjacent segment.

The larvae have been recorded on Jasminum, Adina, Coffea, Gardenia, Guettarda, Morinda, Pavetta, Randia, and Nephelium. They are green with a bluish white dorsal line and white dorsolateral ones.

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Barnett, L. K.; Emms, C. W. & Holloway, J. D. (July 1, 1999). "The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography". Journal of Natural History. 33 (7): 1021–1038. doi:10.1080/002229399300065.
"Cephonodes picus (Cramer, 1777)"^{[permanent dead link]}. Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Cephonodes picus Cramer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved January 11, 2019.

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