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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.