Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Austria, Azores, Albania, Andorra, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Iceland, Spain (mainland part), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete,Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Northern Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Faroe Islands,Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Northeast (?), The European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North Urals, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].
• Homeland species - the tropics, but the butterfly flies to Europe each year, and sometimes even drifted north to Ireland. [5].
• Kazakhstan [PC1149].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Length of front wing - from 4.5 to 5 cm. Some like aSphinx ligustri: the top of the front wings, too, gray-brown, with a wavy pattern, abdomen striped, red and black. To distinguish these butterflies is easy on the rear wings: they have convolvulaceae hawk pale blue-gray, four-lane, while the purple hawk red hind wings.In addition, this species is very long proboscis - up to 10 cm, which allows the butterflies to feed on flowers with deep cups (eg, scented tobacco). [5].

General info about Imago

• Warm slopes, potato fields, wherever bindweed flowers and flying convolvulaceae Hyles. In the evening and at night. [5].

Imago lifespan

• Arrivals butterflies begins in May and can last all summer, with the immigrants mixed with spring hatched butterflies. [5].

General info about Larva

• Caterpillars green with yellow oblique strokes. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Convolvulus, Rumex, Ipomoea. [28].
• Bindweed. Only bindweed. [5].

Larva lifespan

• The larvae are found from July through September. [5].

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