Hippotion roseipennis

Hippotion roseipennis
Hippotion roseipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Hippotion
Species: H. roseipennis
Binomial name
Hippotion roseipennis
(Butler, 1882)[1]
Synonyms
  • Diodosida roseipennis Butler, 1882
  • Hippotion exclamationis Fawcett, 1915
  • Hippotion exclamationis robur Jordan, 1938
  • Hippotion exclamationis austrinum Jordan, 1930

Hippotion roseipennis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry areas from KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and south-western Ethiopia.[2]

The length of the forewings is 22-25 mm and the wingspan is 52-58 mm. It is a variable species. The ground colour of the body and forewings is very pale sandy to light ochreous-olive, lightly speckled with black in form exclamationis, darker and heavily dusted with black in form austrinum. The forewings have two parallel curved lines running from the inner margin to the apex and a dark wedge-shaped stigma. The hindwings are brownish and pinkish at the margin. The underside is light brown to light reddish-brown variously marked and speckled with darker brown.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Rhoicissus tridentata.

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Hippotion/roseipennis.html. Retrieved 2011-10-25. 
  2. ^ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/jeanhs/XXVI%20No.3%20(115)_1_1967_Carcasson.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-25. 
  • Pinhey, E (1962): Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa. Longmans Southern Africa, Cape Town.
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