Observed on a rock next to Helele'ike'oha Falls (a.k.a. Blue Pool or Blue Angel Falls).
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Sphingidae, Sphinginae
Psilogramma increta
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore (Kovai)
Tamil Nadu, India
seen at a halogen flood light shortly after dusk.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Sphingidae, Sphinginae
Psilogramma increta
at light trap, 10 October 2008, Po Toi Island, Hong Kong
this is an introduced species to Hawaii, a hawk moth from Asia.
Psilogramma increta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-eastern China, Japan and Korea, south and east through China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Peninsular Malaysia, to the Greater Sunda Islands, west through Burma, Nepal and India to Kashmir. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.
