''Cephonodes titan'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Sphingidae The Sphingidae are a family of moths (Lepidoptera) called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as “hornworms”; it includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, but ...

. It is known from

Ambon Ambon may refer to: Places * Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia ** Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province ** Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796 * Ambon, Morbihan, a c ...

. It is the largest species of the genus ''

Cephonodes ''Cephonodes'' is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. (''Cephanodes'' is a frequent misspelling.) The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species *''Cephonodes apus'' (Boisduval, 1833) *'' Cephonodes armatus'' Rothschild & Jordan ...

''. The upperside of the head, thorax, abdomen and wing bases is black. The underside of the thorax is orange, while the underside of the wing bases and abdomen is black. The anal tuft is brownish-orange.

References

Cephonodes Moths described in 1899 {{Dilophonotini-stub