Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Burchalovskaia, Polina D. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2022, A review of the Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Zanzibar (Unguja) Island (Tanzania), Ecologica Montenegrina 57, pp. 109-117 : 114-115

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2022.57.10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13241764

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB228787-FF90-FFCE-A3C2-7D6214D14871

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scientific name

Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
status

 

15. Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779) View in CoL

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Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 2 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg. GoogleMaps

Distribution. Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2022; this study).

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Hippotion

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