Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) of the British Indian Ocean Territory

This is a guide to the Lepidoptera of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The species listed here are primarily those recorded in the Zoological Society London checklist. Additional species have been added from surveys collected through a Darwin Plus project (DPLUS151). This list is not ...more ↓

Cephonodes picus

Cephonodes picus is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics, including India, the Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Torres Strait Islands, Brunei and the Chagos Archipelago.

Dark Striated Hawkmoth

Hippotion velox, the dark striated hawkmoth, is a species of sphingid moth or the family Sphingidae. The species was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. It is found throughout the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka and east to Fiji and New Caledonia, north to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sumatra southern Japan and northern Australia from Western Australia to ...more ↓

Macroglossum corythus

Macroglossum corythus is a species of hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856 and is found throughout the Indo-Australian tropics east to New Caledonia.

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