Cephonodes picus

Cephonodes picus or Green Bumble-bee Hawkmoth is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics, including India, the Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Torres Strait Islands, Brunei and the Chagos Archipelago.

Cephonodes picus
Male dorsal
Male ventral
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Cephonodes
Species:	C. picus
Binomial name
Cephonodes picus (Cramer, 1777)
Synonyms
Sphinx picus Cramer, 1777 Sesia cunninghami Walker, 1856 Macroglossa yunx Boisduval, 1875

The wingspan is about 50 mm.

The larvae have been recorded on Jasminum, Adina, Coffea, Gardenia, Guettarda, Morinda, Pavetta, Randia, Tarema and Nephelium. They are green with a bluish white dorsal line and white dorsolateral ones.