The Sphingidae of Southeast-Asia    

(incl. New Guinea, Bismarck & Solomon Islands)                                 Back to start page,  species list           

by Jan Beck & Ian J. Kitching                                                                                                                    

Hippotion boerhaviae (Fabricius, 1775)

For further information on this species, see SphinEP

Taxonomy

Distribution

The records from Korea (unlocalized) and Japan (Kyushu & Miyakojima-province, Honshu) are considered to be
migrants. There is a general problem of differentiating records for H. boerhaviae and H. rosetta as the two species are almost indistinguishable and were treated as one species for a long time. Thus, older records particularly could refer to either.