Rhagastis olivacea
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| image = Rhagastis olivacea BMNHE812989 male up.jpg
| taxon = Rhagastis olivacea
| authority = (Moore, 1872){{cite web|url=http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Rhagastis/olivacea.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024074146/http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Rhagastis/olivacea.html|archivedate=2012-10-24|url-status=dead |title=CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae |publisher=Cate-sphingidae.org |accessdate=2011-10-25}}{{PD-notice}}
| synonyms =
- Pergesa olivacea Moore, 1872
}}
Rhagastis olivacea, the olive mottled hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Distribution
It is found from north-western India across Nepal, northern Myanmar, northern Thailand and southern China to northern Vietnam.{{cite web |last1=Pittaway |first1=A. R. |last2=Kitching |first2=I. J. |date=2018 |url=http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/r_oli.htm |title=Rhagastis olivacea (Moore, 1872) -- Olive mottled hawkmoth |website=Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic |accessdate=December 17, 2018}}
Description
The wingspan is 72–92 mm. It can be distinguished from all other Rhagastis species by the yellowish-green ground colour of the forewing upperside with narrow and indistinct reddish transverse lines and bands, and a shuttle-shaped marginal area bordered irregularly with bluish-white scales, most strongly at the apex and tornus.
Adults are lachryphagous (meaning they drink tears).Bänziger, H. 1992. Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae). Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 40: 91–102.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Impatiens species in India.
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Category:Moths described in 1872
Category:Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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