Caterpillar Identification Please

[sami]

My auntie lives in Spain and sent me a photo of a caterpillar to try and identify for her, i'm struggling! I'll try and work out how to post some pictures in a minute but if i can give you a description to go on can you try and help me please?

It looks a bit like a twister ice cream, it's green and blue, it looks like it's head is a lime greeny colour, the blue part of it is along the top and the green is underneath, it has tiny black spots in the centre of the green. It also has a little tail about 1cm long. I've looked at the Elephant Hawk Moth but it's definitely not that. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Wild-Woman]

Sounds like it could come from the Hawk-moth family.We'll await your picture!

Welcome to WAB sami!

[sami]

thanks for the welcome

[Dogghound]

Its a deaths head hawkmoth Acherontia atropos

[Wild-Woman]

Very nice indeed. A very rare migrant to this country. What a beauty.

[sami]

Oooh thank you for all the replies and helping to identify

[fincapadron]

Thank you for the identification - I have just found one in my garden in the Axarquia region of Andalucia. A bit of a shock as I was looking for seedpods on a climber and grabbed hold of the poor thing by mistake!