Macroglossum aesalon
Abdomen upperside with 4 orange lateral patches, the 1st and 4th generally small; a black mesial spot at the base of the anal brush. Palp white, shaded with brown scales. Thorax underside brown, clayish in the middle. Abdomen underside either tawny with a series of more or less confluent brown patches at each side; or nearly all tawny; or brown with 3 series of tawny patches. Forewing upperside with 2 oblique antemedial lines, curving basad posteriorly, slightly converging anteriorly, the space between more or less filled up with black scaling, especially in the male; the space between the antemedial and discal lines grey and including a distinct, if minute, discal spot; 1st and 2nd discal lines distinct, curved costad anteriorly, the distal almost angled behind vein M1, with black scaling extending distad to the faint 3rd line, defining a grey, trapezoidal costal area, distal to which are 2 elongate dark patches, the anterior less distinct than the posterior. Hindwing upperside with base brownish black; medial band broad, yellowish-orange; distal part of the wing blackish brown, becoming purple-brown on the disc. Hindwing underside with extreme base and inner margin yellow; 3 discal lines present.
Male genitalia: Uncus convex apically, not pointed. Gnathos simple. Valve without stridulatory scales. Harpe slender, spatulate, the apical part dilated and denticulate. Phallus with a rather broad, obtuse, dentate, horizontal process, the series of teeth on the proximal edge extending proximad on the phallus; two obtuse cornuti.