Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Silver Striped Hawk. Vine Hawk.

SYNONYMS
Sphinx celerio, Sphinx tisiphone, Deilephila albolineata, Deilephila inquilina, Hippotion ocys,

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, DRCongo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Rumex abyssinicus, Ampelopsis, Galium verum, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Boerhavia elegans, Beta vulgaris, Cissus cirrhora, Vitis vinifera, Acacia karoo, Acacia caffra, Impatiens, Vigna, Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea cairica, Ipomoea involucrata,