Hyles cretica

MOTH INFO

Hyles cretica is a moth of the family Sphingidae on the island of Crete, Greece.

Scientific name

Superfamily: Bombycoidea > Family: Sphingidae > Subfamily: Macroglossinae > Tribus: Macroglossini > Genus: Hyles

Wingspan

69-80 mm

Habitat

The larva is monophagous on Euphorbiaceae (Εuphorbia characias, Euphorbia dendroides) and feeds on the leaves.

Flight period

Links

Lepidoptera Mundi

Lepiforum e. V.

Plant Parasites of Europe

Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic

Notes

Hundsdoerfer AK, Lee KM, Kitching IJ, Mutanen M, 2019 – Genome-wide SNP Data Reveal an Overestimation of Species Diversity in a Group of Hawkmoths – Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 8, August 2019, Pages 2136–2150

“[…] We therefore propose the following formal taxonomic reclassification of the HEC [Hyles Euphorbiae Complex] species rank taxa (names already placed in synonymy and the numerous infrasubspecific names are not listed here; for further information on these, see Kitching and Cadiou 2000):

Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758)

= Deilephila tithymali Boisduval, 1834 syn. nov.
= Hyles tithymali mauretanica Staudinger, 1871 syn. nov.
= Deilephila robertsi Butler, 1880 syn. nov.
= Deilephila peplidis Christoph, 1894 syn. nov.
= Deilephila mauretanica deserticola Staudinger, 1901 syn. nov.
= Celerio euphorbiae conspicua Rothschild and Jordan, 1903 syn. rev.
= Hyles tithymali himyarensis Meerman, 1988 syn. nov.
= Hyles euphorbiae gecki de Freina, 1991 syn. nov.
= Hyles robertsi elisabethae Ebert, 1996 syn. nov.
= Hyles cretica Eitschberger, Danner and Surholt, 1998 syn. nov.
= Hyles sammuti Eitschberger, Danner and Surholt, 1998 syn. nov.
= Hyles tithymali gallaeci Gil-T., Requejo and Estévez, 2011 syn. nov.
= Hyles tithymali phaelipae Gil-T. and Gil-Uceda, 2012 syn. nov.

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