Marumba maackii

Marumba maackii, the Manchurian hawkmoth, is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the Russian Far East, north-eastern China, North Korea, South Korea and Hokkaido in northern Japan.

Marumba maackii
Marumba maackii maackii, female, upperside. Russia, Ussuri, Gusevsky River
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Marumba
Species:	M. maackii
Binomial name
Marumba maackii (Bremer, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
Smerinthus maackii Bremer, 1861 Marumba maackii bipunctata O. Bang-Haas, 1936 Marumba maackii jankowskioides O. Bang-Haas, 1936

The wingspan is 78–96 mm.

There is one main generation in the Russian Far East with adults on wing from June to late July.

The larvae feed on Tilia species, including particularly Tilia amurensis, Tilia japonica, Tilia platyphyllos and Tilia tomentosa.

Subspecies

• Marumba maackii maackii (Russian Far East, northeastern China, North Korea, South Korea and northern Japan (Hokkaido))^[2]
• Marumba maackii ochreata Mell, 1935 (Tianmu Mountains of Zhejiang in China)^[3]