Dolbina elegans: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Dolbina
Species
Dolbina elegans
Scientific Name
Dolbina elegans

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Dolbina elegans

Dolbina elegans, the ash hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Andreas Bang-Haas in 1912. It is found from Ukraine, Moldavia, through eastern Romania and eastern and southern Bulgaria, northern Greece, western and southern Turkey to northern Syria, western Jordan, Israel, northern Iraq and northern Iran.

The wingspan is 40–53 millimetres (1.6–2.1 in). There are two to three generations per year. Adults are on wing from April and May to early September. In Europe they are mainly found in July and in April in southern Bulgaria.

The larvae probably feed on Fraxinus species.

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Dolbina elegans in languages:

Russian
Долбина элегантная
Ukrainian
Долбіна елегантна

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