Hippotion rosetta

Hippotion rosetta, or Swinhoe's striated hawkmoth, is a species of sphingid moth in the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892.^[1]

Hippotion rosetta
in Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Hippotion
Species:	H. rosetta
Binomial name
Hippotion rosetta (C. Swinhoe, 1892)
Synonyms
Choerocampa rosetta C. Swinhoe, 1892 Hippotion depictum Dupont, 1941

Distribution

It is found from southern Pakistan, India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, east across Thailand, southern China and Taiwan to the Ryukyu Archipelago and the Philippines, then south across south-east Asia to the Andaman Islands, eastern Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and the Torres Strait of New Guinea.

Description

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  Male dorsal view
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  Male ventral view
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  Female dorsal view
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  Female ventral view

Biology

There are several generations per year in Hong Kong, with adults on wing from March to November, with peaks in late March, May and early October.

Larvae have been recorded on Borreria, Morinda citrifolia and Morinda umbellata, as well as Pentas lanceolata.