Rethera komarovi

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Rethera komarovi, the madder hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Hugo Christoph in 1885. It is found in south-western Europe, Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Iran and Iraq.

Rethera komarovi
Male dorsal view
Male ventral view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Rethera
Species:
R. komarovi
Binomial name
Rethera komarovi
(Christoph, 1885)[1]
Synonyms
  • Deilephila komarovi Christoph, 1885
  • Rethera komarovi drilon Rebel & Zerny, 1931
  • Rethera albocingulata O. Bang-Haas, 1935
  • Rethera rjabovi O. Bang-Haas, 1935
  • Rethera roseocingulata O. Bang-Haas, 1935
  • Choerocampa stipularis C. Swinhoe, 1885

The wingspan is 55–65 mm for subspecies R. k. komarovi and 65–81 mm for subspecies R. k. manifica. Adults are on wing from mid-April to mid-June.

Larvae have been recorded on Rubia and Galium species.

Subspecies

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  • Rethera komarovi komarovi (mountains of eastern Albania, southern Yugoslavia, northern Greece, southern Bulgaria (as an isolated population), western, central, eastern and southern Turkey, Transcaucasia, Lebanon, northern Jordan, northern Iraq, Armenia, northern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan (western Gissar Mountains), southern and eastern Kazakhstan to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan)
  • Rethera komarovi boguta (Afghanistan)
  • Rethera komarovi manifica (central and southern Iran)
  • Rethera komarovi stipularis (Afghanistan)

References

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  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
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