Small elephant hawk-moth
- Description
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Adult small elephant hawk-moths fly May-July across the UK but prefer chalky areas. Frank Lees collected this specimen near his home 4 June 1960.
This is the much smaller relative of the elephant hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor, and it has much yellower wings. The larva is also smaller and lacks the curved horn on the rear end that occurs in most other hawk-moth species. - Accession Loan No.
- 9/1997/52
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- small elephant hawk-moth
- Simple Name
- insect: moth
- Full Name
- SPHINGIDAE: Deilephila porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758): small elephant hawk-moth
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-); Modern (1900-)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Devonshire Association (from the collection of): Lees, Mr Frank H
- Collection Parish
- Maidencombe
- Collection Town
- Torquay
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- SPHINGIDAE
- Genus
- Deilephila
- Species
- porcellus
