Elephant hawk-moth
- Description
- When threatened, elephant hawk-moth larvae rear up like a snake and use their very obvious eyespots to startle predators. To preserve this larva, its insides have been squeezed out and then the skin blown up like a baloon.
- Accession Loan No.
- 53/1976/72
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- elephant hawk-moth
- Simple Name
- insect: moth
- Full Name
- SPHINGIDAE: Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758): elephant hawk-moth
- Dimensions
- length 60 mm
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Holcroft, Mr C W
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- SPHINGIDAE
- Genus
- Deilephila
- Species
- elpenor
