The Hawkmoth Fauna of Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
Author
Rafi, Muhammad Ather
Author
Sultan, Amir
Author
Kitching, Ian J.
Author
Pittaway, Anthony R.
Author
Markhasiov, Maxim
Author
Khan, Muhammad Rafique
Author
Naz, Falak
text
Zootaxa
2014
3794
3
393
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journal article
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Cephonodes hylas
subsp.
hylas
(Linnaeus, 1771)
Plate 2, Fig. 25
Material examined.
PAKISTAN
, [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,]
Thandyani road, Abbottabad, 0
9. viii. 2006
, Falak Naz; [
Azad Jammu and Kashmir,]
Mang,
9. x. 1999
, Adnan; Rawalakot, August, 1999, Adnan; [
Islamabad,]
Margalla Hills,
21. viii. 2006
, Amir Sultan;
NARC
,
14. vi. 2011
, Elizabeth Stephen; [
Punjab,]
Faisalabad,
27. vii. 2006
, Falak Naz; [
Sindh,]
Malir, Karachi,
9. vii. 1956
, Ehsan; as previous except
20. vii. 1960
; as previous except
30. vi. 1956
, Yaqob.
Remarks.
The record of this species feeding as larvae on
Lonicera quinquelocularis
by
Mohyuddin (1987)
is erroneous; this plant is the larval host of
Hemaris saundersii
(Walker, 1856)
.
Cephonodes hylas
subsp.
hylas
is widely distributed in Asia, from northern
Pakistan
,
India
,
Nepal
and
Sri Lanka
, east through
Myanmar
and
China
, to
South Korea
and southern
Japan
, then south and east through
Thailand
,
Laos
,
Vietnam
,
Taiwan
, Peninsular
Malaysia
, the
Philippines
and
Indonesia
as far as Borneo and Java (
Pittaway & Kitching, 2013
). It is replaced by other subspecies in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands,
Australia
and Africa.