Green pergesa hawkmoth
The green pergesa hawkmoth is a big, fast moth from tropical Asia. Its body and wings are purplish grey, with a green stripe down its back and a green band across each front wing. Its caterpillar wears fake eyes to scare away enemies.
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Fun facts
Its green caterpillar has a big eye spot near the front, white with a blue and green middle.
Further down its body, the caterpillar has a row of smaller bluish eye spots with yellow centres.
Like other hawkmoth caterpillars, it has a little horn at its back end.
It is the only species in its group, called Pergesa.
Most asked questions about Green pergesa hawkmoth
?What does the green pergesa hawkmoth caterpillar eat?
Plants like taro, elephant ear, begonia and grape vines.
?How big is the green pergesa hawkmoth?
It is a big moth, with wings 64 to 80 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pergesa acteus
- Named by
- Cramer, 1779
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pergesa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by LC Shih. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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