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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilySphingidae
Observations recorded72,494
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,919
- With media
- 60
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM, DMNS, UIT
- Recorded in
- Nigeria, Vietnam, Norway, Liberia, Indonesia, Ethiopia
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Encyclopedic overview
Agrius convolvuli, the convolvulus hawk-moth, is a large hawk-moth. It is common throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, partly as a migrant. In New Zealand, it is also known as the kumara moth, and in the Māori language as hīhue.
Description and habits
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agrius convolvuli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.