| Hyles apocyni | |
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| Male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Hyles |
| Species: | H. x apocyni |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyles x apocyni (Shchetkin, 1956) [1] | |
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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]