Hippotion velox

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Bombycoidea

Familia: Sphingidae
Subfamilia : Macroglossinae
Tribus: Macroglossini
Subtribus: Choerocampina
Genus: Hippotion
Species: Hippotion velox
Species: H. v. tainanensis – H. v. velox
Name

Hippotion velox Fabricius, 1793)
Synonymy

Sphinx velox Fabricius, 1793 (original combination)
Hippotion velox (Fabricius, 1793):
Hippotion taiwanensis Riotte, 1975
Hippotion japenum Riotte, 1994 (synonymized by Kitching & Cadiou (2000: 49, 117).
Type locality: [Indonesia, Western New Guinea], Yapen
Holotype: BPBM. male ♂.
Hippotion beddoesii Clark, 1922
Type locality: Fiji, Suva.
Holotype: CM. female ♀.
Hippotion noel Clark, 1923
Type locality: Christmas Island
Syntypes: BMNH. 1 male ♂ and 1 female ♀. formerly Hill Museum.

References
Additional references

Clark, B.P. 1922. Twenty-five new Sphingidae. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 8: 1-23. full article BHL. Reference page.
Matsumura, S. 1927. New species and subspecies of moths from the Japanese Empire. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University 19(1): 1–91. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Riotte, J.C.E. 1975. Eine neue Art der Gattung Hippotion von Formosa (Lep., Sphingidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 85: 97–100. Reference page.
Riotte, J.C.E. 1994. Eine neue Art des Hippotion velox-Species-Komplexes (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 104: 293–299. Reference page.

Vernacular names
日本語: オバナワスズメ

Hippotion velox, the dark striated hawkmoth, is a species of sphingid moth or the family Sphingidae. The species was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.
Distribution

It is found throughout the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka and east to Fiji and New Caledonia, north to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sumatra southern Japan and northern Australia from Western Australia to Queensland.[2]
Description

The wingspan is 54–76 mm. The head and thorax are brown with pale lateral streaks. The abdomen is brown with numerous dark strigae and pairs of pale lateral striage on each segment. The forewings are brown without any silvery makings, thus differ from T. celerio. Hindwings are smoky brown with traces of a darker submarginal line.[3]

The final instar occurs in two forms, green and dark.[4] Larvae are pale green or brown with dorsal black dots. There is an eyespot on the 4th somite which is blue centered with yellow in the green form. An ochreous black ring is present in brown form. There is a subdorsal line from 5th to 11th somite. Horn is purplish in the green form. Pupa is bone colored, closely spotted and speckled with brown and some black dots.

The larvae have been recorded on Araceae, Convolvulaceae, Nyctaginaceae and Rubiaceae species, including Ipomoea, Boerhavia and Morinda species.[5]
References

"CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
"Hippotion velox". Butterfly House. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
"Hippotion velox Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 5 July 2016.

Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Hippotion velox (Fabricius, 1793) -- Dark striated hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 15, 2018.

Pinhey, E. (1962). Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa. Longmans Southern Africa, Cape Town.
Barnett, L. K.; Emms, C. W. & Holloway, J. D. (July 1, 1999). "The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography". Journal of Natural History. 33 (7): 1021–1038. doi:10.1080/002229399300065.