Hyles hippophaes (Esper, 1789)

Khalaim, Ye. V., 2022, Catalogue Of The Heteroceran Moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Metaheterocera) Of Odesa Region Of Ukraine. Part 1. Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Brahmaeidae, Lasiocampidae, Thyrididae & Drepanidae, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 13 (2), pp. 1-28 : 10-11

Hyles hippophaes (Esper, 1789)

Ermolenko, 1999; Duz’, 2007; Arkhipov, 2022; Strenada, 2022 a.

Material. Zavodivka, 18.06.2020, 3 spec. (Leshchenko, Gera); Radialka, 25.08.2020, 1 spec. (Lapin); Trudomyrivka, 21.08.2021, rare (Khalaim, Novitskiy); Severynivka, 05.06.2016, 1 spec. (Sergienko, Bidzilya), 23.08.2018, 1 spec. (Novitskiy, Sergienko, Trotsenko), 02.08.2019, 1 spec. (Novitskiy), 18.05.2020, 1 spec. (Leshchenko, Gera), 31.08.2021, rare (Sergienko), 15.09.2021, 1 spec. (Yepishin, Sergienko); Rus’ka Slobidka, 24.07.2016, common (Kostjuk, Sergienko), 05.05.2018, 3 spec. (Tsikal), 10.05.2018, 2 spec. (Gerasimov, Trotsenko, Tsikal), 14.07.2018, 3 spec. (Andrianov), 11.08.2018, 1 spec. (Gerasimov, Tsikal, Trotsenko), 25.07.2021, common (Khalaim, Novitskiy); Butsynivka, 17.08.2010, 3 spec. (Khalaim); Korsuntsi, 29.07.2016, 5 spec. (Khalaim); Kubanka, 25.07.2020, common (Khalaim, Novitskiy); Kairy, 23.05.2020, 1 spec. (Khalaim, Novitskiy), 07.06.2020, 1 spec. (Yepishin, Mushinskiy, Novitskiy, Sergienko); Hradenytsi, 05.06.2011, 1 spec. (Novitskiy); Mayaky, 20.07.2018, 1 spec. (Andrianov); Kovalivka, 07.07.2020, 1 spec. (Leshchenko, Gera); Roxolany, 23.06.2020, 1 spec. (Khalaim, Novitskiy), 15.08.2020, 1 spec. (Bidzilya, Kostjuk, Sergienko), 30.08.2021, rare (Khalaim, Novitskiy, Sergienko); Karolino-Buhaz, without date, 2 spec. (Kolomeychuk); Vesela Dolyna 2, 25.08.2011, 1 spec. (Kostjuk, Plyushch); Vesela Dolyna, 14.08.2021, common (Khalaim, Novitskiy, Kavurka); Lebedivka sandbar, 18.06.2014, 1 spec. (Khalaim); SDyviziya, 15.08.2020, rare (Khalaim, Novitskiy, Mushinskiy); Tuzly Amazonia, 03– 05.08.2021, 2 spec. (Khalaim); Khadzhyder, 08.08.2021, 1 spec. (Novitskiy, Sergienko); Vylkove, 21– 22.07.2012, 4 spec., 03– 07.08.2014, 1 spec., 04– 09.08.2015, 1 spec., 08.08.2016, 1 spec. (Khalaim); Zhebriansky ridge, 11.07.2020, rare, 10.06.2020, 1 spec. (Bidychak); Nahirne, 26.06.2008, 1 larva on Eleagnus angustifolia , exit from the chrysalis 13.07.2008 (Khalaim).

Common in the steppe zone of the Region, and less common in the wood-and-steppe areas in the north ( Fig. 48). Bivoltine. Moths fly from early May to mid-September. Caterpillars develop mainly on Eleagnus angustifolia .

The species recently appeared in the fauna of Ukraine. In 1954, it was first discovered in the Crimea ( Derzhavets, 1984). Later, it expanded its range, first into the steppe zone of the mainland of Ukraine, and later into the wood-and-steppe ( Pljushtch & Sheshurak, 1997; Goloborod’ko, Pljushtch & Pakhomov, 2010).

According to Zolotuhin & Yevdoshenko (2019), the nominative European subspecies is found in northern Spain, southern France, southern Switzerland, and northern Italy. The populations of the Balkans, Moldova, and Ukraine belong to the Asian ssp. bienerti Staudinger, 1874 . In accordance with the morphological characters

given in this work (adults are more yellow with a reduced discal spot), the studied specimens from Odesa Region are closer to ssp. bienerti , but not in all details correspond to it ( Fig. 52, 53). Because Patzold et al. (2021) indicate that the boundary between the nominative European subspecies and the Asian ssp. bienerti Staudinger, 1874 passes through the south-west of Ukraine; it is possible that with range expansion of the Asian subspecies, an “overlap” with the range of the nominal European subspecies just happened and now intermediate forms are found.