Daphnis minima

Daphnis minima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Daphnis
Species:	D. minima
Binomial name
	Daphnis minima; Butler, 1876[1]
Synonyms
	Daphnis ernestina Moore, 1887;

Daphnis minima is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.[2]

It is similar to Daphnis placida placida but smaller and the forewing upperside median olive-green band is less oblique, wider posteriorly and narrower before the middle. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877 (journal date 1876 but actual publication was delayed) on the basis of a specimen collected from Uttara Kanara by S. N. Ward in the collection of Frederic Moore.[3]

References

"CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
"Daphnis minima". Krishna Mohan Photography. March 8, 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1876). "Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 9 (10): 511–644.

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[1] "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-26.

[2] "Daphnis minima". Krishna Mohan Photography. March 8, 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2016.

[3] Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1876). "Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 9 (10): 511–644.