Hippotion rosetta

Hippotion rosetta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Sphingidae
Genus:Hippotion
Species: H. rosetta
Binomial name
Hippotion rosetta
(Swinhoe, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
  • Choerocampa rosetta Swinhoe, 1892
  • Hippotion depictum Dupont, 1941

Hippotion rosetta is a species of Sphingid moth of the family Sphingidae.

Distribution

It is found from southern Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, east across Thailand, southern China and Taiwan to southern Japan (the Ryukyu Archipelago) and the Philippines, then south across south-east Asia to the Andaman Islands, eastern Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and the Torres Straits of New Guinea.

Description

Biology

There are several generations per year in Hong Kong, with adults on from March to November, with peaks in late March, May and early October.

Larvae have been recorded on Borreria, Morinda citrifolia and Morinda umbellata, as well as Pentas lanceolata.

References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  • Pinhey, E (1962): Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa. Longmans Southern Africa, Cape Town.


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