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Rhagastis gloriosa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Sphingidae

Scientific name
  
Rhagastis gloriosa

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Rhagastis

Rank
  
Species

Rhagastis gloriosa

Rhagastis gloriosa is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found along the southern slopes of the Himalaya in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, north-eastern India and northern Myanmar, east to central Yunnan in China. It has also been recorded from the extreme northwest of Thailand and northern Vietnam.

The wingspan is 82–92 mm. It has olive-green forewings overlain by broad, dark red and partially merged transverse bands. The dorsal scaling of the antenna is brown or black from near the base to near the hook. The forewing upperside ground colour is olive green. The transverse bands are dark red, broad, irregular and partially merged. The forewing and hindwing underside ground colour is bright pink and the hindwing upperside has a median band flushed with pink.

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Rhagastis gloriosa Wikipedia