Hyles apocyni

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Hyles apocyni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Hyles
Species:
H. x apocyni
Binomial name
Hyles x apocyni
(Shchetkin, 1956) [1]
Synonyms
  • Celerio apocyniShchetkin, 1956

Hyles x apocyni is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

The larvae feed on Apocynum species. While a close relationship to Hyles chamyla has long been suspected, a combination of DNA sequencing and comparative morphology places this species as a hybrid of Hyles chamyla with Hyles hippophaes bienerti . [2]

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References

  1. "Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory: Hyles x apocyni". sphingidae.myspecies.info. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  2. Patzold, Franziska; Marabuto, Eduardo; Daneck, Hana; O'Neill, Mark; Kitching, Ian; Hundsdoerfer, Anna (2021-05-17). "The Phylogenetics and Biogeography of the Central Asian Hawkmoths, Hyles hippophaes and H. chamyla: Can Mitogenomics and Machine Learning Bring Clarity?". Diversity. MDPI. 13 (5): 213. doi: 10.3390/d13050213 . hdl: 10141/622944 . Retrieved 2023-06-23.