Genus Clanis Rank Species | ||
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Similar Clanis, Sphecodina caudata, Carabus constricticollis, Omias verruca, Bibasis aquilina | ||
Clanis undulosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. The nominate subspecies is found in the southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and north-eastern China, as far as south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei. South from Sichuan (Baoxing), Hubei, Jiangxi (Guling) and Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan), it is replaced by ssp. gigantea, which ranges west to Nepal and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia.
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The wingspan is 100–120 mm for ssp. undulosa and 118–160 mm for ssp. gigantea. Adults of the nominate subspecies are on wing from June to early August in Korea.
Biology
The food plants of the nominate subspecies are unknown. The larvae of ssp. gigantea have been recorded on Lespedeza viatorum in Guangdong and on Lespedeza thompsoni in north-eastern India.