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Rethera komarovi, the madder hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Otto Vasilievich Bremer and William Grey in 1853. It is found in south-western Europe, Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Iran and Iraq.

Rethera komarovi
Male dorsal view
Male ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Rethera
Species:	R. komarovi
Binomial name
Rethera komarovi (Bremer & Grey, 1853)[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

• 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

External links

• Pittaway, A. R. (2018). "Rethera komarovi (Christoph, 1885)". Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic. Retrieved December 18, 2018. - with information about subspecies R. k. komarovi
• Pittaway, A. R. (2018). "Rethera komarovi manifica Brandt, 1938". Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic. Archived from the original on October 30, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2018. - with information about subspecies R. k. manifica

На других языках

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- [en] Rethera komarovi

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[ru] Бражник Комарова

Бражник Комарова[1] (лат. Rethera komarovi) — бабочка из семейства бражников (Sphingidae).

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