Smerinthus minor, the lesser eyed hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.[2] It was described by Rudolf Mell in 1937. It is a montane species found from the Taibai Shan area, western Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, China eastwards along the Qinling to southern Shanxi and then north to just west of Beijing. It has also been recorded from the Miaofeng Mountains near Beijing and the Wuling Mountains in Hunan.[3]

Lesser eyed hawkmoth
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Smerinthus
Species:
S. minor
Binomial name
Smerinthus minor
Mell, 1937[1]

The wingspan is 70–80 mm. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from early June to early July.

References edit

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Smerinthus minor Mell, 1937". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Pittaway, A. R. (2018). "Smerinthus minor Mell, 1937". Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic. Retrieved December 17, 2018.