Small elephant hawk-moth
Adult small elephant hawk-moths fly May-July across the UK but prefer chalky areas. Frank Lees bred this specimen from an egg between 1926 and 1927. It emerged as an adult 25 July 1927.
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.
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.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1997/47
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Devonshire Association (from the collection of): Lees, Mr Frank H
- Common Name
- small elephant hawk-moth
- Simple Name
- insect: moth
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939); Modern (1900-)
