Hippotion osiris ( Dalman, 1823 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 180

Hippotion osiris ( Dalman, 1823) *

COMMON NAME (S): Large striped hawkmoth, Large Striped Hawk or Greater silver-striped hawkmoth. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,

Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, S„o Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa,

Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Univerity of Zambia (Lusaka) **, in Lusaka Province ; Monze and Livingstone, in the Southern Province ; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province ; Serenje, in Central Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Balsaminaceae species ( Impatiens balsamina L. and I. walleriana Hook. f. ), one Vitaceae species ( Vitis vinifera L. ), two Rubiaceae species ( Morinda citrifolia L. and Pentas lanceolata (Forssk.) Deflers ) and one Araceae species ( Caladium sp. ) in Seychelles ( Legrand 1966;

Gerlach & Matyot 2006); one Fabaceae species ( Vigna sp. ), one Balsaminaceae species ( Impatiens

sp.), one Onagraceae species ( Fuchsia sp. ), two Vitaceae ( Cissus sp. and Vitis vinifera L. ) and one

Rubiaceae species ( Richardsonia sp. ) in South Africa ( Fawcett 1901; Pinhey 1960; Prinsloo & Uys

2015); four Rubiaceae species ( Spermacoce ruelliae DC. , S. hepperiana Verdc. , S. verticillata L. and

Oldenlandia corymbosa L.) and two Vitaceae species ( Vitis vinifera L. and Ampelocissus multistriata

(Baker) Planch.) in Côte d’Ivoire ( Vuattoux et al. 1989); two Rubiaceae species ( Morinda citrifolia L.

and Pentas lanceolata (Forssk.) Deflers ), one Vitaceae species ( Vitis vinifera L. ), one Balsaminaceae species ( Impatiens walleriana Hook.f. ) and one Araceae species ( Caladium sp. ) in Seychelles ( Matyot

2005; Gerlach & Matyot 2006) and two Convolvulaceae species ( Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet and I.

pileata Roxb.) and one Araceae species ( Anchomanes difformis (Blume) Engl. ) in an unnamed African country or countries ( MacNulty 1970).

The following have been indicated as foodplants of larvae of the taxon without specifying in which countries above they occur ( African Moths 2019): one Balsaminaceae species ( Impatiens balsamina L.),

two Araceae species ( Anchomanes difformis (Blume) Engl. and Zantedeschia aethiopica (L.) Spreng.),

two Vitaceae species ( Cissus sp. and Vitis vinifera L. ), one Onagraceae species ( Fuchsia sp. ), three

Convolvulaceae species ( Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. cairica (L.) Sweet, and I. pileata Roxb. ), two

Rubiaceae species ( Spermacoce natalensis Hochst. and Richardia sp. ), one Fabaceae species ( Vigna sp. ),

one Polygonaceae species ( Oxygonum sinuatum (Hochst. & Steud ex Meisn.) Dammer ), one Geraniaceae species ( Pelargonium sp. ) and one Bignoniaceae species ( Spathodea campanulate P.Beauv. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fawcett 1901; Gerlach & Matyot 2006; Hampson 1910c; Legrand, 1966; MacNulty 1970; Matyot 2005; Pinhey 1960; Prinsloo & Uys 2015; Vuattoux et al. 1989.