Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)

Common Striped Hawk.

SYNONYMS
Sphinx eson,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 25
aporodes, aurora, balsaminae, batschii, butleri, celerio, chloris, dexippus, eson, geryon, gracilis, griveaudi, irregularis, isis, moorei, osiris, pentagramma, rebeli, rosae, roseipennis, saclavorum, socotrensis, stigma, talboti, velox,

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
polyphagous, Impatiens balsamina, Vigna, Amorphophallus, Ampelopsis, Anchomanes difformis, Arum, Bougainvillea, Caladium, Cissus, Colocasia, Coprosoma baueri, Fuchsia, Ipomoea cairica, Ipomoea involucrata, Paullinia pinnata, Pentas, Richardia, Vitis hederacae, Vitis vinifera, Zantedeschia aethiopica,