Fulvous Hawk Moth

Description:

The length of the forewing is 52–55 mm for males and the wingspan is 101–111 mm. The body and wings are brown, with two bright pink dorsal hair tufts at the base of the abdomen. The forewings are mottled and variegated with lighter brown and dark indistinct wavy lines. The hindwings are darker, with a black basal patch surrounded by a large ochreous yellow patch. Females are larger and darker.

Habitat:

Found at the Mlawula Nature reserve lodge, night.

Notes:

Coelonia fulvinotata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from most habitats, excluding the more extreme ones, throughout the Ethiopian Region, from Gambia east to Ethiopia and south to northern South Africa and Madagascar. This moth seems to be quite variable in pattern (see reference link) Superfamily Bombycoidea, Family Sphingidae, Genus Coelonia