Macroglossum fritzei
Differs from all other species of Macroglossum in the very oblique antemedial band of the forewing. Head and thorax uppersides dark grey, with a brown mesial line. Tegula with a large, brown, triangular patch conspicuously edged with grey. Abdomen upperside blackish-brown, large yellow lateral patches on segments 2 and 3, and a smaller one on 4. Palp underside reddish grey, a dark triangular lateral patch not sharply marked. Thorax underside pale red centrally, darker laterally. Abdomen underside bright tawny, the apical margins brown, a lateral series of conspicuous buff-yellow spots. Forewing upperside with antemedial lines much more oblique than in any other species, filled with deep brown to form a band that reaches the costal margin distally to the apex of the discal cell, conspicuously bordered with greyish white proximally; 1st and 2nd lines irregularly dentate, curved costad anteriorly, the space between not filled; postdiscal line dentate, with a sharply marked buffish border; a pale area present between the 2nd discal and the postdiscal line running from vein CuA1 to [CuP]; subapical spot in cell Rs3 somewhat reddish brown, that in Rs4 blackish. Forewing underside reddish-chestnut, the extreme base yellowish, the blackish-brown border very distinct, due to a series of irregular buff-yellow postdiscal patches, that in cell M1 vestigial; 2 thin dentate lines present within the postdiscal patches. Hindwing underside yellow band broad; the black marginal area consequently narrow, its inner edge almost straight. Hindwing underside reddish anteriorly, with the base and anal areas yellow gradually shading off on the disc only 1 mm. short of the tip of vein 2A; brown border sharply marked, with indications of pale yellow spots at its proximal edge; discal lines reddish. Male FWL: 21 mm.