Daphnis nerii

Daphnis nerii
Female in Mangaon, Maharashtra, India
Fully grown caterpillar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Daphnis
Species:
D. nerii
Binomial name
Daphnis nerii
Distribution: blue = summer, green = year round
Synonyms
  • Sphinx nerii Linnaeus, 1758
  • Daphnis nerii infernelutea Saalmüller, 1884
  • Daphnis nerii confluens Closs, 1912
  • Daphnis nerii nigra Schmidt, 1914
  • Deilephila nerii
  • Deilephila nerii bipartita Gehlen, 1934[2]

Daphnis nerii, the oleander hawk-moth or army green moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

  1. ^ "Fauna Europaea". Archived from the original on August 21, 2014.
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