- Object name(s):
- insect: moth; SPHINGIDAE: Deilephila porcellus: small elephant hawk-moth; small elephant hawk-moth
- Brief description:
- Adult small elephant hawk-moths fly May-July across the UK but prefer chalky areas. Frank Lees collected this specimen near his home 4 June 1960. This is the much smaller relative of the elephant hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor, and it has much yellower wings. The larva is also smaller and lacks the curved horn on the rear end that occurs in most other hawk-moth species. This object is not on display.
- Collection:
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
- Associated concept:
- Insect
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Field collection place:
- Maidencombe
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Torquay
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Devon
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- United Kingdom: England
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Northern Europe
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Europe
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collector:
- Devon & Exeter Institution (from the collection of)
- Field collector:
- Mr Frank H Lees (collector)
- Object name:
- insect: moth; SPHINGIDAE: Deilephila porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758): small elephant hawk-moth; small elephant hawk-moth
- Object number:
- 9/1997/52
- Reproduction number:
- 9-1997-52.jpg
- Reproduction number:
- 9-1997-52-shot1.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Natural Sciences
- Responsible department/section:
- Arthropods
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c0b1a84b-08d9-3c93-a818-ce4eb43f0339
Use licence for this record: CC 0
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c0b1a84b-08d9-3c93-a818-ce4eb43f0339, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, CC 0
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