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 a larva between 1932 and 1933. It emerged as an adult 4 July 1933.
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.
- 9/1997/57
- 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-)
