Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh & Fric, Zdeněk Faltýnek, 2021, Checklist of the family Sphingidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) from Shirui Hills, Manipur, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1), pp. 173-194 : 184

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/153911

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5768783-161E-E041-FF05-D0AFFEEF4843

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Felipe

scientific name

Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

22. Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL - Silver striped Hawkmoth ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 : D)

1758. Sphinx celerio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (Ed. 10), 1: 491.

Material examined: INDIA, Manipur, Ukhrul District, Shirui Hills, Site 3 (25.1171ºN 94.4456ºE), 2190 m asl GoogleMaps ,

13.ix.2019 - 1♂, IJ2296, coll. J.S. Irungbam.

Wingspan: ♂, 63 mm. Forewing length: 29 mm.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicober Islands ( Chandra and Kumar, 1992); Arunachal Pradesh ( Athreya, 2013, Kaleka et al., 2018); Delhi ( Paul et al., 2017); Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh ( Chandra et al., 2014); Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttarakhand ( Sanyal et al., 2018, Kaleka et al., 2018); Karnataka (Melichar et al., 2018, Kaleka et al., 2018); Maharashtra ( Shubhalaxmi et al., 2011, Gurule and Nikam, 2013); Manipur; Meghalaya ( Mandal and Ghosh, 1999); Punjab ( Pathania et al., 2014, Kaleka et al., 2018); Rajasthan ( Sharma, 2014); Tamil Nadu ( Iyer and Kitching, 2019); West Bengal ( Shah et al., 2018). Elsewhere: Tropical Africa, Asia, Australia ( Pittaway and Kitching, 2020).

Larval hostplants: Unknown in India.

Remarks: The species is recorded here for the first time from Manipur.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Hippotion

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