{"id":49,"date":"2009-05-16T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T12:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2017-10-07T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:18:12","slug":"acherontia-atropos-linnaeus-1758","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"<i>Acherontia atropos<\/i> (Linnaeus, 1758)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family: <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/?page_id=548\"><strong><em>Sphingidae<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGenus: <em>Acherontia<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>atropos<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It occurred in orchards, gardens, meadows\u2026 essentially anywhere where its foodplants occurred in abundance. Is a rare species now.<\/li>\n<li>Eggs are oval, greenish or bluish laid singly on underneath old leaves of the hostplant. Eggs are small for size of moth (1,5&#215;1,2 mm). The full grown larva are 120-130mm. Larvae are in three forms: green, brown or yellow. The pupa is in a pupal chamber in soil at 15-40 cm.<\/li>\n<li>Flight period: sometime found from May but usually in the autumn (September-October-November).<\/li>\n<li>Hostplant: specially plants for <em>Solanaceae<\/em>, <em>Bignoniaceae<\/em> and <em>Oleaceae<\/em> (<em>Solanum tuberosum<\/em>, <em>S. dulcamara<\/em>, <em>Ligustrum<\/em>, <em>Datura<\/em>, <em>Cannabis<\/em>, <em>Atropa<\/em>, <em>Lycium<\/em>, <em>Philadelphus<\/em>, <em>Nicotiana<\/em>, <em>Nerium<\/em>, <em>Olea<\/em>, <em>Schrebera alata<\/em>, <em>Stachytarpeta indica<\/em>, <em>Clerodendron<\/em>, <em>Tecomaria<\/em>, <em>Tecoma<\/em>, <em>Withania<\/em>, <em>Hoslundia<\/em>, <em>Fraxinus<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>photos taken in Romania and Greece<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Similar species (in Europe):\u00a0none<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4693_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1280\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4693_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4734_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1283\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4734_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4725_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1282\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4725_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4716_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1281\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4716_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9345_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1287\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9345_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9340_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1285\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9340_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9338_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1284\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9338_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9343_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1286\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_9343_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4676_Acherontia_atropos_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1279\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4676_Acherontia_atropos_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_3760_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1278\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_3760_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/atropos_pupa_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1277\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/atropos_pupa_s-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/atropos_pupa_s-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/atropos_pupa_s-744x743.jpg 744w, https:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/atropos_pupa_s-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/atropos_pupa_s.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/acherontia-atropos-img_2399.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-192\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/acherontia-atropos-img_2399-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/acherontia-atropos-img_4112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-52\" src=\"http:\/\/lepidoptera.nature4stock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/acherontia-atropos-img_4112-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations are welcome, will help me to add new content and to keep this online free of commercials<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page-sidebar widget\" id=\"donation_buttons\"><form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\" ><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"cosminovidiu@yahoo.com\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"mbjtechnolabs_SP\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_donations\"><table ><tbody><tr><td><input style=\"margin-top:10px;\" type=\"image\" name=\"submit\" border=\"0\" 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Is a rare species now. Eggs are oval, greenish or bluish laid singly on underneath old leaves of the hostplant. Eggs are small for size of moth (1,5&#215;1,2 mm). The full grown larva are 120-130mm. 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