Phyllosphingia

Phyllosphingia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Phyllosphingia Swinhoe, 1897
Species:	P. dissimilis
Binomial name
Phyllosphingia dissimilis (Bremer, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
Clarkia Tutt, 1902 Clarkunella Strand, 1943 Triptogon dissimilis Bremer, 1861 Phyllosphingia dissimilis hoenei Clark, 1937 Phyllosphingia dissimilis jordani Bryk, 1946 Phyllosphingia dissimilis sinensis Jordan, 1911

Phyllosphingia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing only one species Phyllosphingia dissimilis, which is known from the south-eastern Russian Far East, eastern and central China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. There is also a record from Luzon. Subspecies perundulans is found from Nepal, east through north-eastern India, Myanmar and northern Thailand to southwestern China. The habitat consists of open parklands and forest edges.

The wingspan is 93–130 mm. There is one generation per year in northern China, with adults on wing from May to July. Farther south, there are two generations. Adults have been recorded from mid May to mid August in Korea.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Carya cathayensis, Juglans mandschurica and Juglans regia in China, Juglans mandschurica in Primorskiy Kray and Prunus serrulata var. spontanea in Korea.

Subspecies

• Phyllosphingia dissimilis dissimilis (south-eastern Russian Far East, eastern and central China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. There is also a record from Luzon)^[2]
• Phyllosphingia dissimilis perundulans Swinhoe, 1897 (from Nepal, east through north-eastern India, Myanmar and northern Thailand to southwestern China)^[3]

References

1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
2. Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "''Phyllosphingia dissimilis dissimilis'' at Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
3. Pittaway AR; Kitching I. "''Phyllosphingia dissimilis perundulans'' at Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic". Tpittaway.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-11-01.