Name
Hyles
sphinx moth
Framing
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Hexapoda
Subclass: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Hyles
Habitat
Land. Vegetation
Feeding
Free life. Solitary. Adult fluidophagous, herbivorous larva.
Distribution
Cosmopolitan
Conservation status
Majority of species Not evaluated
Additional information
Nocturnal butterfly. Hypognathous head and sucking-maxillary mouthparts in adult. Two pairs of large scaly wings. Marching legs with five-articulated tarsi. Larvae eruciform with chewing mouthparts. Claviform antennae
Additional information
Bibliography
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., Rubinoff, D., Attié, M., Wink, M., & Kitching, I. J. (2009). A revised molecular phylogeny of the globally distributed hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(3), 852-865.
- Hundsdoerfer, A. K., & Kitching, I. J. (2020). Morphological evolution in Hyles Hübner, 1819 hawkmoths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae): reconstructing the ancestral Hyles habitus. Nota Lepidopterologica, 43, 181.