Endangered
Fabulous Green Sphinx Moth
Tinostoma smaragditis
Fabulous Green Sphinx Moth is a moth or butterfly in the family Sphingidae (order Lepidoptera) — Tinostoma smaragditis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The fabulous green sphinx moth or fabulous green sphinx of Kauai is a moth in the family Sphingidae.
The genus was erected by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903 and the species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1998. Its natural habitats are dry and lowland moist forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Fabulous Green Sphinx Moth is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Fabulous Green Sphinx Moth, Wikidata item Q1594825. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
