African Moths Gambia


 

Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823)

Large Striped Hawk.

SYNONYMS
Deilephila osiris,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 25
aporodes, aurora, balsaminae, batschii, butleri, celerio, chloris, dexippus, eson, geryon, gracilis, griveaudi, irregularis, isis, moorei, osiris, pentagramma, rebeli, rosae, roseipennis, saclavorum, socotrensis, stigma, talboti, velox,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Impatiens balsaminae, Anchomanes difformis, Cissus, Fuchsia, Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea cairica, Ipomoea involucrata, Spermacoce natalensis, Vigna, Oxygonum sinuatum, Pelargonium, Richardia, Spathodea nilotica, Vitis vinifera, Zantedeschia aethiopica,

Hippotion osiris
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
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Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 

Upperside

 
Upperside
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: SMCR-Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
 
Photo: SMCR-Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
Underside (GM)
 
Larva (SL)
 
Pupa (SL)
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Live (KE)
 
Live (NG)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: P. Buckham-Bonnet
 
Photo: A. Ajibade