Dolbina exacta
| Dolbina exacta | |
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| Dolbina exacta in Seitz | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Dolbina |
| Species: | D. exacta |
| Binomial name | |
| Dolbina exacta Staudinger, 1892[1] | |
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Dolbina exacta is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the southern part of the Russian Far East, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, south into China as far as Sichuan, Hubei and Zhejiang.[2] The habitat consists of open parklands and forest edges.
The wingspan is 55–58 mm. Both wings and the abdomen undersides are brownish grey. There are small black basal spots on the abdomen underside.
Adults are on wing from mid April to late August in Korea.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Fraxinus in China, Fraxinus (including Fraxinus mandshurica) and Syringa amurensis in the Russian Far East, Fraxinus lanuginosa in Japan and Ligustrum obtusifolium, Syringa reticulata and Fraxinus rhynchophylla in Korea.
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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