Clanis undulosa
Introduction '''''Clanis undulosa''''', the '''wavy velvet hawkmoth''', is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1879.The nominate subspecies is found in the southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and north-eastern China, as far as south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei. South from Sichuan (Baoxing), Hubei, Jiangxi (Guling) and Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan), it is replaced by ssp. ''gigantea'', which ranges west to Nepal and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia.
Description Clanis undulosa MHNT CUT 2010 0 23 Pulau Assan Indonesia dorsal.jpg|Male dorsal viewClanis undulosa MHNT CUT 2010 0 23 Pulau Assan Indonesia ventral.jpg|Male ventral viewClanis undulosa MHNT CUT 2010 0 443 Pulau Assan Indonesia - Female dorsal.jpg|Female dorsal viewClanis undulosa MHNT CUT 2010 0 443 Pulau Assan Indonesia - Female ventral.jpg|Female ventral viewThe wingspan is 100–120 mm for subspecies ''C. u. undulosa'' and 118–160 mm for subspecies ''C. u. gigantea''. Adults of the nominate subspecies are on wing from June to early August in Korea.
Biology The food plants of the nominate subspecies are unknown. The larvae of subspecies ''C. u. gigantea'' have been recorded on ''Lespedeza viatorum'' in Guangdong and on ''Lespedeza thompsoni'' in north-eastern India.
Subspecies *''Clanis undulosa undulosa'' (southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China, as far south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei)*''Clanis undulosa gigantea'' Rothschild, 1894 (South from Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Zhejiang west to Nepal and north-eastern India and south, through Thailand and Vietnam, to Peninsular Malaysia)
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