#cephonodes hylas

[ayanos-pl]

ニオイバンマツリの花でオオスカシバが吸蜜してた（5月8日）

yesterday-today-tomorrow or kiss me quick (Brunfelsia latifolia) and a coffee bee hawkmoth, pellucid hawk moth or coffee clearwing (Cephonodes hylas)

[mariposabonita]

Cephonodes hylas

Pellucid Hawk Moth aka Coffee Bean Moth (Cephonodes hylas), family Sphingidae, Bhandardara, India

photograph by Nitin Prabhudesai

[mutant-distraction]

Yama Shigi

Cephonodes hylas

[bardicbird]

the bad kids as moths

my 100% correct opinions based on looks, vibes, names, etc.

Adaine: small emerald moth (hemistola chrysoprasaria)

Fig: scarlet-bodied wasp moth (cosmosoma myrodora)

Riz: coffee clearwing (cephonodes hylas)

Fabian: atlas moth (attacus atlas)

Gorgug: african moon moth (argema mimosae)

Kristin: southern flannel (megalopyge opercularis)

[konjaku]

梔子|山梔子|巵子[Kuchinashi] Gardenia jasminoides

It produces flowers with a jasmine-like fragrance and thick, white petals in early summer. There is also a double-flowered variety, but this does not bear fruit.

The larvae of 大透翅[Oosukashiba](Coffee bee hawkmoth, Cephonodes hylas) love to feed on its leaves. Last autumn, a larva ate all the leaves of the tiny tree of the double-flowered variety I planted in a nook of my garden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephonodes_hylas

The fruits are used for a variety of purposes, including as an herbal medicine, as a dye for fabrics, and as a food coloring, which is called クチナシ色素[Kuchinashi shikiso]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXBUSKymoGA

Incidentally, 梔子 is a homonym for 口無し(No mouth). There is an idiom 死人に口無し[Shinin ni kuchi nashi](Dead men tell no tales.)

[mantisgodsdomain]

Accidentally set this post to one day, instead of one week. Unfortunately, we cannot edit polls, so we had to repost.

(image reference, by order that they're listed in the poll)

[betonbennett]

Pellucid hawk moth. Enjoy.

-moth anon

Pellucid hawk moth (Cephonodes hylas)

Well, isn't this one just adorable. It reminds me of cicadas, in a way. Never before have I come across a moth with transparent wings, it is quite peculiar! Thank you for sharing this one with me. 🩷

[sava-smth]

Coffee bee hawkmoth - Cephonodes hylas

was looking up some sort of creatures last night while half asleep/in a daze and i legitimately thought i imagined them

[twinkle--bark]

Cephonodes hylas

[herpsandbirds]

Pellucid Hawk Moth aka Coffee Bean Moth (Cephonodes hylas), family Sphingidae, Japan

Diurnal moth.

photograph by Yama Shigi

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Indeed, Australia has a seriously good selection of weird moths

Pellucid hawk moth (Cephonodes hylas)

Image credit: Matee Nuserm / Shutterstock.com

[mysticmothworld]

Yes, the first one is a female Papilio aegeus, which can be determined by how its underside looks. I'm jealous that u saw it ngl, that thing is one bigass butterfly (around 12 cm apparently!!).

The second one is a little harder to answer. There are three cephonodes moths in NSW: c. kingii, c. australis, and c. hylas. It's definitely not c. kingii, which leaves australis and hylas. It's more likely to be hylas, which has a white to yellowish underside (similar to the picture, although it is quite blurry so i might be seeing things wrong), instead of australis which has a white underside. It seems that australis was recently reclassified from a subspecies of hylas (called c. hylas australis), so they are very similar.

I agree with you about the tail probably being for balance, but unfortunately wasn't able to find any resources on it, apart from a paper which was behind a paywall :( I did find out moths use their antennae for balance, though. Oh and also i found this article, so the research was worth it.

sooo i saw two new buggies today!!!! and with the help of the aussie lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) website that @mysticmothworld showed me the last time i was trying to identify a bunch of moths, I think i may have actually identified these bugs correctly! i think!! i hope!!

The first bug is a big ass butterfly called the Papilio Aegus, which I'm like 98% sure is the correct identification because the only other butterfly that looks similar is the Papilio Anactus which is just. like. way too small based on images I saw of people holding the butterfly. and according to wikipedia the Papilio Aegus can have a wingspan of 4.7 inches if male and like 5.5 inches if female, which is a big ass butterfly, and the butterfly i saw was indeed a big ass butterfly, so i think it's correct. also apparently the males and females look different? which most likely makes the above butterfly a female. super awesome!!!

the second bug is one i am less sure of, but i've not found a better identification for it, and it is called a Cephonodes Australis. As I type this the moth is still right outside my window and I was able to get a VERY close up look with just my eyeballs, and having looked through a crap ton of moth photos, both of the Cephonodes Australis and other moths, I think this might be the correct identification. The picture above is a screenshot from a video I took, and looking through the other frames, I believe the wings are clear, which matches the identification of the Cephonodes Australis, as well as the green on the top, the yellow underneath, the white stripes, and the VERY dark red (basically almost black) stripe on the body. I also watched the moth in flight and saw it's weird little lobster tail change from being very wide to very thin, constantly changing the shape and angle of the tail and i thought that was SO cool. probably uses it's tail like a rudder or something! idk how flight works though because i'm a human and don't have wings LMAO. I'm only like 78% sure that this is the right moth, but I really don't have any other options so I think this is probably right. anyways. I like to identify moths and butterflies now! not just birds! but i do still love birds! i just didn't know we had such a big variety of moths and stuff and these silly little guys enamor me so much.

[rattyexplores]

Must be discrete...

Cephonodes hylas

06/11/21

[animalworld]

COFFEE BEE HAWKMOTH Cephonodes hylas ©Nitin Prabhudesai

Cephonodes hylas, the coffee bee hawkmoth, pellucid hawk moth or coffee clearwing, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771. A widely distributed moth, it is found in the Near East, Middle East, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia.

It has transparent wings and a stout body like a bumble bee. Its wingspan of 1-2″/45–73 mm. Its marginal borders are very narrow and black. Abdomen varies in color from yellow to green. Nominate subspecies has bright reddish 3rd and 4th abdominal segments. Larva have two color forms, green and blackish.

[macquarieridge]

Coffee bee hawkmoth (Cephonodes hylas) オオスカシバ (大透翅)

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(image reference, by order that they're listed in the poll)