Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Cephonodes picus - Green Bumble-bee Hawkmoth
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Cephonodes hylas is very similar species, which lacks apical thorn on its tibia, which picus has. Additionally, underside head and thorax of picus is orange, whereas that of hylas is white/whitish or pale yellow.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Cephonodes picus (Cramer, [1777]) – Green Bumble-bee Hawkmoth: Coffea sp., Haldina cordifolia, Hymenodictyon obovatum, Hymenodictyon orixense, Mitragyna diversifolia, Mitragyna parvifolia, Catunaregam spinosa (Rubiaceae),Tectona grandis (Lamiaceae), Xylia xylocarpa (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Sphinx picus Cramer, [1777]; Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9-16): 38, pl. 148, f. B
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-3/sphingidae/sphingidae_17_1.php
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sphi/picus.html [accessed 21 August 2018]
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Cephonodes picus (Cramer, [1777]) – Green Bumble-bee Hawkmoth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.50. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/cephonodes-picus, accessed 2023/06/04.