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Agrius convolvuli

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Its favourite time is around sunset and during the twilight, when it is seen in gardens hovering over the flowers. This moth is very attracted to light, so it is often killed by cars on highways. Its caterpillars eat the leaves of the
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is 80–105 mm. This hawkmoth's basic coloration is in grayish tones, but the abdomen has a broad gray dorsal stripe and pink and black bands edged with white on the sides. The hindwings are light gray with darker broad crosslines.
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can be distinguished on the basis of the clearly stronger pink colouring of the abdominal segments and a similarly coloured rear wing base. In addition,
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The caterpillars can be in a number of different colours. As well as brown (pictured below) they have been seen in bright green and black.
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is unmistakable in the eastern area of distribution, in the western area of distribution it can be mistaken for
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name "convolvuli". Other recorded food plants include a wide range of plants in the families
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The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I
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has some resemblance with North American species in the genus
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Convolvulus hawk-moth


Rila Monastery
Bulgaria
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Sphingidae
Agrius
Binomial name
Linnaeus
1758

Synonyms
hawk-moth
Māori language
wingspan
♂
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Convolvulus
Latin
Araceae
Convolvulaceae

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