Cephonodes hylas

Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Sultan, Amir, Kitching, Ian J., Pittaway, Anthony R., Markhasiov, Maxim, Khan, Muhammad Rafique & Naz, Falak, 2014, The Hawkmoth Fauna of Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Zootaxa 3794 (3), pp. 393-418 : 401

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.