Hippotion boerhaviae (Fabricius, 1775)

Kaustubh, Kumar, Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul & Mahboob Hassan, S. M., 2022, A preliminary Checklist of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from Saranda forest division, Jharkhand, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (4), pp. 433-445 : 435

2. Hippotion boerhaviae (Fabricius, 1775) (Plate 2: Figure 11 )

Material Examined: India: Jharkhand, Saranda Forest, Kiriburu (22˚07.066 ‘N; 85˚17.831 ‘E), 897.7 masl ,

30.ix.2018 - 1ex., 02.x.2018 - 1ex.; 03.x.2018 - 2 ex.,

05.x.2018 - 1ex. (Coll. by K. Kaustubh).

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia ( Chandra et al., 2014; Irungbam, et al., 2021).

Host plants: Mentioned in Robinson , et al., (2001) .

Figures

Figures 7-13. 7. Theretra oldenlandiae; 8. Pergesa acteus; 9. Acosmeryx anceus, 10. Acosmeryx shervilli; 11. Hippotion boerhaviae; 12. Nephele hespera; 13. Marumba dyras.