Dolbina elegans

Ash hawkmoth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Dolbina
Species: D. elegans
Binomial name
Dolbina elegans
Synonyms
  • Dolbina elegans steffensi Popescu-Gorj, 1971

Dolbina elegans (ash hawkmoth) is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Ukraine, Moldavia, through eastern Romania and eastern and southern Bulgaria, northern Greece, western and southern Turkey to northern Syria, western Jordan, Israel, northern Iraq and northern Iran.

The wingspan is 40–53 millimetres (1.6–2.1 in). There are two to three generations per year. Adults are on wing from April/May to early September. In Europe they are mainly found in July and in April in southern Bulgaria.

The larvae probably feed on Fraxinus species.

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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