Hippotion geryon: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Hippotion
- Species
- Hippotion geryon
- Scientific Name
- Hippotion geryon
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hippotion geryon
Hippotion geryon is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.
It is similar to Hippotion osiris, but is immediately distinguishable by the lack of pink coloration on the hindwing upperside and the single pair of black abdominal patches. The upperside of the antennae is conspicuously pink-scaled. The base of the abdomen has a single pair of large, square, black subdorsal patches. The forewing upperside is very similar to Hippotion osiris but differing in the distal part of the longitudinal pale band through the discal cell being absent beyond the discal spot. The hindwing upperside is dark brown with a buff patch on the inner margin and a buff postmedian band.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Hippotion adelinae
- Hippotion aporodes
- Hippotion aurora
- Hippotion balsaminae
- Hippotion batschii
- Hippotion boerhaviae
- Hippotion brennus
- Hippotion brunnea
- Hippotion butleri
- Hippotion celerio
- Hippotion chloris
- Hippotion commatum
- Hippotion dexippus
- Hippotion echeclus
- Hippotion eson
- Hippotion geryon
- Hippotion gracilis
- Hippotion griveaudi
- Hippotion hateleyi
- Hippotion irregularis
- Hippotion isis
- Hippotion johanna
- Hippotion joiceyi
- Hippotion leucocephalus
- Hippotion melichari
- Hippotion moorei
- Hippotion osiris
- Hippotion paukstadti
- Hippotion pentagramma
- Hippotion psammochroma
- Hippotion rafflesii
- Hippotion rebeli
- Hippotion rosae
- Hippotion roseipennis
- Hippotion rosetta
- Hippotion saclavorum
- Hippotion scrofa
- Hippotion socotrensis
- Hippotion stigma
- Hippotion talboti
- Hippotion velox







