Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758) = Sphinx celerio Linnaeus, 1758 = Sphinx tisiphone Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena inquilinus Harris, [1780] = Elpenor phoenix Oken, 1815 = Hippotion ocys Hübner, [1819] = augustii (Trimoulet, 1858) = Deilephila albolineata Montrouzier, 1864 = brunnea Tutt, 1904 = pallida Tutt, 1904 = unicolor Tutt, 1904 = Hippotion sieberti Closs, 1910 = Hippotion rosea Closs, 1911 = Hippotion luecki Closs, 1912. [9, 10]

Silver-striped Hawk-moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:2822

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny*; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny*; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Azores, Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Spain ( mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica,Crete, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: European Central Black Earth (?), The European Central (?), West Caucasian (?). [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Vitis, Galium, Epilobium, Linaria, Daucus, Rumex, Lonicera, Fuchsia, Impatiens, Galium verum, Colocasia esculenta, Parthenocissus. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Yusri Syam.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

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