Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Burchalovskaia, Polina D. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2022, A review of the Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Zanzibar (Unguja) Island (Tanzania), Ecologica Montenegrina 57, pp. 109-117 : 114-115

15. Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)

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Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 2 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

Distribution. Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2022; this study).

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

Figures

Figure 4. Examples of Macroglossinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779); (B) Nephele argentifera (Walker, 1856); (C) N. bipartita Butler, 1878; (D) N. funebris (Fabricius, 1793); (E) N. peneus (Cramer, 1776); (F) Theretra capensis (Linnaeus, 1764). Scale bar = 10 mm.