Hyles vespertilio (Esper, 1780)

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 vespertilio

Species name(s)

Hyles vespertilio (Esper, 1780) = Sphinx vespertilio Esper, 1780 = salmonea (Oberthür, 1894) = flava (Blachier, 1905) = explicata (Dannehl, 1933). [9, 10]

Dusky Hawk-moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:2833

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#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, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Italy (mainland), Romania ?, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of Russia: Western Caucasus (?). [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Epilobium, Chamaenerium, sometimes Galium. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

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