Amplypterus panopus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Amplypterus panopus, the mango hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found in Sri Lanka, southern and northern India (including the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands), Nepal, Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia (to Sulawesi) and the Philippines.
The wingspan is 130–168 mm. Adults are on wing in March, April, June, August and December in Hong Kong. Larvae have been recorded on Dracontomelum dao, Mangifera indica, Rhus, Durio, Calophyllum and Garcinia. In The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I, the species is described as follows:
Head, thorax, and terminal segments of abdomen golden brown; the proximal segments pale. Fore wing purplish flesh-color; some brown waved lines near the base; then an oblique band; some waved brown lines from the costa to lower angle of cell; an oblique post-medial band; a highly waved and irregular whitish submarginal line; a dark ocellus near outer angle. Hind wing flesh-color, the outer area brown; the disk suffused with pink; antemedial, medial, and two postmedial lines, the last two angled below... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mango Hawkmoth sighting in Khao Yai National Park on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 64th most-seen of the 221 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June to August
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Mango Hawkmoth in Khao Yai National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, March–May, September and November, the lowest months. Those are among Khao Yai National Park's wettest months, with about 230 mm of rain a month against 15 mm in December.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mango Hawkmoth sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Khao Yai National Park, in our data
Khao Yai National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mango Hawkmoth sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Sphingidae
The closest relatives of the Mango Hawkmoth that you can see in Khao Yai National Park (family Sphingidae, Sphinx Moths) are Yam Hawkmoth (about 20%), Jade Hawkmoth (about 20%) and Megacorma obliqua (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mango Hawkmoth is recorded against all the insects logged in Khao Yai National Park (12 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
