Hyles hippophaes

Seathorn hawk-moth
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Hyles
Species:	H. hippophaes
Binomial name
	Hyles hippophaes; (Esper, 1789)
Synonyms
	Sphinx hippophaes Esper, 1789; Deilephila insidiosa Erschoff, 1874; Celerio hippophaes teriolensis Dannehl, 1929; Celerio hippophaes obscurata Dannehl, 1929; Celerio hippophaes kiortsii Koutsaftikis, 1974; Celerio hippophaes flava Denso, 1913; Celerio hippophaes expallidata Dannehl, 1933; Celerio hippophaes crocea Rebel, 1910; Deilephila hippophaes bienerti Staudinger, 1874; Celerio hippophaes shugnana Sheljuzhko, 1933; Celerio hippophaes ornatus Gehlen, 1930; Celerio hippophaes malatiatus Gehlen, 1934; Celerio hippophaes caucasica Clark, 1922; Celerio hippophaes bucharana Sheljuzhko, 1933; Celerio hippophaes baltistana O. Bang-Haas, 1939; Celerio hippophaes anatolica Rebel, 1933; Hyles hippophaes transcaucasica Gehlen, 1932; Hyles hippophaes caucasica Denso, 1913;

Hyles hippophaes, the seathorn hawk-moth, is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1789.

Distribution

The wingspan is 65–80 mm.

Larvae of subspecies H. h. bienerti have been recorded on Elaeagnus angustifolia and Hippophae rhamnoides in China and Tajikistan.

Hyles hippophaes hippophaes
Hyles hippophaes bienerti (Staudinger, 1874) (from Turkey, the Caucasus and southern Russia, east through Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan to Kashmir and north-western India, and north-east through Kyrgyzstan and eastern Kazakhstan to northern China, Mongolia, Lake Baikal and Tuva in Russia)^[3]
Hyles hippophaes miatleuskii Eitschberger & Saldaitis, 2000 (Kazakhstan)

^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Hyles hippophaes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T10542A3198676. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T10542A3198676.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
^ Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Hyles hippophaes bienerti (Staudinger, 1874) -- Seabuckthorn hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 15, 2018.

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