Hyles hippophaes (Esper, 1789)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Sphingidae → subfamily Macroglossinae → tribe Macroglossini → subtribe Choerocampina → genus Hyles → species Hyles hippophaes

Species name(s)

Hyles hippophaes (Esper, 1789) = Sphinx hippophaes Esper, 1789 = crocea (Rebel, 1910) = flava (Denso, 1913) = obscurata (Dannehl, 1929) = teriolensis (Dannehl, 1929) = expallidata (Dannehl, 1933) = Celerio hippophaes kiortsii Koutsaftikis, 1974. [9, 10]

Seathorn Hawk-moth.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #25. Tuvinsky.

Wingspan

65—75 mm.

Primary colors

Red, Green, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Bulgaria, the British Isles, Hungary ?, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland) ?, Italy (mainland), Corsica, Moldova, Russia, Romania, North Aegean, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland) Croatia, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Tuva, Southern Urals. [3].
Kazakhstan [PC1149].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Hippophae rhamnoides, Elaeagnus angustifolia. [28].

Subspecies of Hyles hippophaes

Hyles hippophaes anatolica Rebel, 1933. [187]
H. h. baltistana Bang-Haas, 1939. [187]
H. h. bienerti (Staudinger, 1874). [10]
H. h. bucharana Sheljuzhko, 1933. [187]
H. h. caucasica Clark, 1922. [187]
H. h. chamyla Denso., 1913. [187]
H. h. hippophaes (Esper, 1789). [10]
H. h. kiortsii Koutsaftikis, 1974. [187]
H. h. malatiatus Gehlen., 1934. [187]
H. h. miatleuskii Eitschberger & Saldaitis, 2000. [9]
H. h. ornatus Gehlen., 1930. [187]
H. h. shugnana Sheljuzhko, 1933. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Alexander Belousov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC1149] Alexander Belousov