Hyles siehei: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Hyles
- Species
- Hyles siehei
- Scientific Name
- Hyles siehei
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hyles siehei
Hyles siehei is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known in southern and eastern Turkey, Armenia, northern Syria, northern Iraq and northern Iran.
The wingspan is 65–70 mm for ssp. siehei and 55–65 mm for ssp. svetlana. Adults of ssp. siehei are on wing from late May to June in one generation. Adults of ssp. svetlana are on wing from late April to late May (with a peak in mid-May), also in one generation.
The larvae of ssp. siehei mainly feed on the seed- and flower-heads of Eremurus species, such as Eremurus himalaicus, Eremurus olgae, Eremurus robustus, Eremurus krudica and Eremurus stenophyllus, but have also been recorded on the seedheads of Asphodelus and Asphodeline species. Larvae of ssp. svetlana have also been recorded feeding on the flower- and seedheads Eremurus species, especially Eremurus sogriganus, Eremurus inderiensis and Eremurus ambigens.
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Sibling Taxa
- Hyles annei
- Hyles apocyni
- Hyles biguttata
- Hyles calida
- Hyles centralasiae
- Hyles chamyla
- Hyles churkini
- Hyles conspicua
- Hyles costata
- Hyles cretica
- Hyles dahlii
- Hyles euphorbiae
- Hyles euphorbiarum
- Hyles exilis
- Hyles gallii
- Hyles hippophaes
- Hyles lineata
- Hyles livornica
- Hyles livornicoides
- Hyles nervosa
- Hyles nicaea
- Hyles perkinsi
- Hyles robertsi
- Hyles salangensis
- Hyles sammuti
- Hyles siehei
- Hyles stroehlei
- Hyles svetlana
- Hyles tatsienluica
- Hyles tithymali
- Hyles vespertilio
- Hyles wilsoni
- Hyles zygophylli
