Lime hawk-moth
- Description
- Hawk-moth from Dr RV Solly’s collection. He found it in the ground as a pupa in 1900. In 1901 it emerged as an adult.
- Accession Loan No.
- 17/1948/68
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- lime hawk-moth
- Simple Name
- insect: moth
- Full Name
- SPHINGIDAE: Mimas tiliae (Linnaeus,1758): lime hawk-moth
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Solly, Dr Reginald (from the collection of)
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- SPHINGIDAE
- Genus
- Mimas
- Species
- tiliae
