1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

1: Indonesien, Sumba, Tambolaka, 9. Januar 2024 (det. & fot.: Kersten Krause)

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Fabricius (1793: 378) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Sphinx velox Fabricius, 1793 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Sphinx vigil Guérin-Méneville, 1843 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Panacra lignaria Walker, 1856 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Sphinx phoenyx Herrich-Schäffer, [1856] [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Chaerocampa[sic] swinhoei Moore, 1866 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Choerocampa yorkii Boisduval, [1875] [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Panacra rosea Rothschild, 1894 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Panacra lifuensis Rothschild, 1894 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Panacra griseola Rothschild, 1894 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Panacra pseudovigil Rothschild, 1894 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Hippotion obanawae Matsumura, 1908 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Hippotion beddoesii Clark, 1922 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Hippotion noel Clark, 1923 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Hippotion tainanensis Clark, 1932 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Hippotion taiwanensis Riotte, 1975 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Hippotion japetum Riotte, 1994 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Faunistics

Nach [Global Biodiversity Information Facility] kommt die Art in Taiwan, Australien, Thailand, Guam, Japan, Indonesien, Papua-Neuguinea, Fidschi, Indien, Neukaledonien, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Philippinen, China, Malaysia, Weihnachtsinsel, Kambodscha, Südkorea, Malediven, Palau, Tonga und Vietnam vor.

Locus typicus gemäß Erstbeschreibung: India orientali.

(Autor: Michel Kettner)

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Fabricius, J. C. (1793): Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus 3 (1): 1-487. Hafniae (C. G. Proft).
• Riotte, J. C. E. (1977): Zur Synonymie von Hippotion velox und Hippotion swinhoei (Lep., Sphingidae). — Entomologische Zeitschrift 87 (8): 77-84. Ex libris Jürgen Rodeland.

3.5. Information at other websites (external links)

• [BOLD]
• [Global Biodiversity Information Facility]
• [Moths of Borneo]
• [African Moths]
• [Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic]
• [Moths of India]
• [Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory]