African Moths Gambia


 

Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856)

Balsam Striped Hawk.

SYNONYMS
Chaerocampa balsaminae, Hippotion pinastrina,


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, Botswana, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Jussiaea repens, Jussiaea stenorraphe, Jussiaea suffruticosa, Jussiaea affinis, Jussiaea erecta, Anchomanes difformis, Impatiens, Ipomoea involucrata, Ipomoea cairica, Ludwigia repens,

Hippotion balsaminae
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (ZW)
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Photo: R. Butler
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (GM)
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Live (GM)
 
Live (ZW)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo B. Wursten