''Callambulyx junonia'', the eyed pink-and-green hawkmoth, is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family

Sphingidae The Sphingidae are a family of moths ( Lepidoptera) called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as “hornworms”; it includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, ...

first described by

Arthur Gardiner Butler Arthur Gardiner Butler F.L.S., F.Z.S. (27 June 1844 – 28 May 1925) was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist. He worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects, and spiders. Biography Arthur Gardiner ...

in 1881.

Distribution

It is known from

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...

Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked States and union territories of India, state in the northeast India, northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the ...

in north-eastern India, southern China and northern

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Description

The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...

is about 104 mm. It can be distinguished from all other ''

Callambulyx ''Callambulyx'' is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. Species *'' Callambulyx amanda'' Rothschild & Jordan 1903 *'' Callambulyx junonia'' (Butler 1881) *'' Callambulyx kitch ...

'' species by the presence of a complete eyespot on the hindwing upperside. Callambulyx junonia MHNT CUT 2010 0 56 Shaanxi Daba Shan 1800m male dorsal.jpg, Male dorsal view Callambulyx junonia MHNT CUT 2010 0 56 Shaanxi Daba Shan 1800m male ventral.jpg, Male ventral view

References

Callambulyx Moths described in 1881 {{Smerinthini-stub