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Hawk moths (Sphingidae) Thailand has 176 species of Sphingidae, more than any other country of a comparable area. Many are found in the hills and forests of the north and most assiduously avoid the spots frequented by me. |
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Acherontia lachesis The Death Head Moth squeaks if you pick it up. Hear it! (No prizes for guessing how it got its name.) |
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| Ambulyx canescens | Theretra lycetus | Hippotion velox | |
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| very probably Rhagastis acuta, outside chance of R. hayesi. | Marumba dyras dyras | Macroglossum gyrans one of the humming-bird hawk-moths active at dusk | Ambulyx pseudoclavata |
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| Acoxmeryx naga naga | Theretra clotho | Hippotion rosetta | Ambulyx ochracea |
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| Opistoclanis hawkeri | Acoxmeryx naga naga | Ambulyx ochracea | Theretra nessus |
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| Theretra pallicosta | Callambulyx rubricosa | Callambulyx rubricosa | Callambulyx poecilus |
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| Probably H. rosetta again but difficult to be sure | Callambulyx rubricosa rubricosa again | Psilogramma increta | Clanis bilineata bilineata |
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| Macroglossinae: Angonyx testacea | Parum colligata | hawk moth preparing for vertical take-off | Cechenena lineosa |
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Cephonodes hylas hylas- difficult to believe it's a hawk moth (in fact from this photo difficult to believe it's anything at all) |
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| Acosmeryx shervillii form pseudonaga | Cypa decolor decolor | ||
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Theretra oldenlandiae |
Nephele hespera |
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| Ambulyx sp. probably liturata (f) | Theretra clotho | Macroglossum affictitia | Ambulyx liturata f. |
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Daphnis hypothous hypothous |
Acosmeryx anceus subdentata (Sphingidae) dark form | Meganoton nyctiphanes | Acosmeryx sericeus |
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| Macroglossum species | Marumba cristata cristata | Elibia dolichus (Macroglossinae) | Eupanacra variolosa |
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| Amplypterus panopus | Smerinthulus quadripunctatus ssp cottoni | Acosmeryx shervillii form shervillii | Ambulyx cyclasticta |
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| Rhagastis olivacea - ' the only hawkmoth known to drink human tears' | Theretra silhetensis | Cizara sculpta Macroglossinae | Lepchina obliquifascia (m) |
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| Lepchina obliquifascia (f) | Macroglosum sitiene | Ambulyx moorei | Daphnis hypothous |
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| Amplypterus panopus f. | Ambulyx ochracea | Smerinthulus quadripunctatus cottoni (light form) | Smerinthulus quadripunctatus cottoni dsf female |
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| Acosmeryx omissa | Eupanacra sp. probably malayana | Lepchina obliquifascia male | Rhagastis acuta |
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| Cechenena subangustata | Eupanacra sinuata | Theretra nessus | Acosmeryx naga |
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| not sure which Sphingidae | Callambulyx rubricosa | Ambulyx sericeipennis | Ambulyx cyclasticta |
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| Cypa decolor | Rhagastis velata male | Amplypterus mansoni | Rhagastis castor aurifera |
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| Rhagastis olivacea | Ambulyx cyclastica | Smerinthulus quadripunctatus cottoni wsf | Leucophlebia lineata Westwood, 1847 |
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| Eupanachra dochertyi (Sphingidae) | Clanis titan (Sphingidae) | Macroglossum mitchellii imperator | Macroglossum sitiene? |
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| Agrius convolvuli (male) | Cephonodes hylas hylas | ||
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| Ambulyx substrigilis? cycastica? | Hippotion celerio (Sphingidae) | Macroglossum heliophila? (Sphingidae) | Theretra nessus (Sphingidae) |
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| Pergesa acteus | Nephele hespera | Hippotion sp | Theretra oldenlandiae |
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| Psilogramma increta | Psilograma menephron ( | ||
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| Amplypterus mansoni (Sphingidae) | Clanis titan (Sphingidae) | Megacorma obliqua (Sphingidae) | Ambulyx species |
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| Anambulyx elwesi | Clanis undulosa | Meganoton rufescens | Rhagastis gloriosa |
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| Dolbina inexacta (Sphingidae) | Macroglossum mitchellii imperator | Craspedortha porphyria Smerinthinae | not sure which Macroglossum |
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| Gehlenia Lepchina obliquifascia | Macroglossum sp. possibly pyrrhosticta | Rhodoprasina callantha | |
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| Eupanacra elegantulus | Cephonodes hylas | looks like Cechechena helops | Rhodoprasina callantha again |
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| Megacorma obliqua | Cechenena minor | not sure which Hawk moth | Ambulyx assiamensis |
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| Barbourian lemaii (Smerinthinae) | Marumba spectabilis | Ambulyx ochracea | Enpinanga borneensis |
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| Ambulyx clavata | Ambulyx liturata? | Callambulyx sp? | |
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| Agrius convolvuli (female) | |||
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Thanks to Roland Breithaupt, Hsun-Cheng Chang, Alastair Goodall, Jean Haxaire, Martin Hough, Gabor Keresztes,Ian Kitching, Roger Kendrick, Felix Lin, Dieter Stuening, David Tang, Shen-Horn Yen for help with identification