Hippotion
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Hippotion is a genus within the butterfly family of the swarmers (Sphingidae).
features
The fore wings are very elongated and tapering to a point, as is the abdomen, which is long and tapering. The antennae of the females are club-shaped and thickened at the end, those of the males are rod-shaped. The last link is short. The labial palps are softly scaled on the outside , but they lack the upright hairs that occur in the genus Deilephila . The scales at the top of the first segment are arranged regularly on the inside and thus form a straight dividing line. There is no tuft of hair at the tip of the second segment. The tibia of the hind legs have two pairs of spurs, the inner ones are longer than the outer ones.
The genitals differ only slightly from those of the genera Deilephila and Theretra .
The eggs are small, spherical, and shiny green.
The caterpillars have a back tapered body and can duck their head. The first and second abdominal segments are thickened and have eye spots . The anal horn is slightly curved backwards.
In the case of the doll , the proboscis is connected to the body. It is keeled and laterally flattened and thus looks similar to the species of the genus Theretra . The cremaster is long and pointed. It has no spines on the sharp, shiny tip.
Way of life
The caterpillars feed mainly on herbaceous plants and tendrils from the families of the grapevine family (Vitaceae), arum family (Araceae), wonder flower family (Nyctaginaceae), red red family (Rubiaceae), knotweed family (Polygonaceae) and evening primrose family (.
Systematics
There are 39 known species from the tropics and subtropics of the Old World , Hippotion celerio and Hippotion osiris also occur in Europe .
- Hippotion adelinae Schmit, 2005
- Hippotion aporodes Rothschild & Jordan , 1910
- Hippotion aurora Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856)
- Hippotion batschii (Keferstein, 1870)
- Hippotion boerhaviae (Fabricius, 1775)
- Hippotion brennus (Stoll, 1782)
- Hippotion brunnea (G. Semper, 1896)
- Hippotion butleri (Saalmüller, 1884)
- Big Wine Hawk ( Hippotion celerio ) (Linnaeus, 1758) Europe
- Hippotion chloris Rothschild & Jordan, 1907
- Hippotion commatum Rothschild & Jordan, 1915
- Hippotion dexippus Fawcett, 1915
- Hippotion echeclus (Boisduval, 1875)
- Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
- Hippotion geryon (Boisduval, 1875)
- Hippotion gracilis (Butler, 1875)
- Hippotion griveaudi Carcasson, 1968
- Hippotion hateleyi Holloway, 1990
- Hippotion irregularis (Walker, 1856)
- Hippotion isis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Hippotion joiceyi Clark, 1922
- Hippotion leucocephalus Röber, 1929
- Hippotion moorei Jordan, 1926
- Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823) Europe
- Hippotion paukstadti Cadiou, 1995
- Hippotion pentagramma Hampson, 1910
- Hippotion psammochroma Basquin, 1989
- Hippotion rafflesii (Moore, 1858)
- Hippotion rebeli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Hippotion rosae (Butler, 1882)
- Hippotion roseipennis (Butler, 1882)
- Hippotion rosetta (Swinhoe, 1892)
- Hippotion saclavorum (Boisduval, 1933)
- Hippotion scrofa (Boisduval, 1832)
- Hippotion socotrensis (Rebel, 1899)
- Hippotion stigma (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Hippotion talboti Clark, 1930
- Hippotion velox (Fabricius, 1793)
Hippotion boerhaviae
Hippotion brunnea
Hippotion brennus
Hippotion celerio
Hippotion rafflesii
Hippotion rosetta
Hippotion velox
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic. AR Pittaway, accessed April 26, 2008 .
- ^ Hippotion Huebner, 1819. Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory, accessed June 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Hippotion. Fauna Europaea, accessed April 26, 2008 .
