Amplypterus panopus Cramer

Sphinx panopus Cramer. 1779, Uitl. Kapell., 3: 50.

Compsogene panopus Cramer; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 189.

Diagnosis

This is a striking species which can only be confused with its only congener, A. mansoni Clark, illustrated by Diehl (1980). A. mansoni has a much more irregularly fasciated hindwing, and narrower forewings that are paler, more unicolorous, less pink, with a more even, narrower, less angular, dark marginal band.

It has not been recorded from Borneo, though it occurs in Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

Geographical range

Oriental tropics to Philippines, Sulawesi and Java.

Habitat preference

Harman (1981) found the species to be frequent mainly in forest areas, though the few specimens taken on G. Kinabalu and during the Mulu survey were in open habitats.

Biology

In Java the larva is greyish green, granular, with a yellow subdorsal line and seven oblique yellow lateral bands (Dupont & Roepke, 1941). A rare form is yellow with reddish brown oblique bands.

The horn is very long and smooth, slightly upcurved.

The Indian larva illustrated by Bell & Scott (1937) is similar, generally paler green dorsally.

Recorded host-plants (Bell & Scott, 1937; Dupont & Roepke, 1941; Barlow, 1982) are: Dracontomelum, Mangifera, Rhus (Anacardiaceae); Durio (Bombacaceae); Calophyllum, Garcinia, (Guttiferae).