Celerio hippophaes chamyla Denso, 1913, Dt. ent. Z., Iris 27: 37. Type locality: [China, Xinjiang,] western Gobi, Chamyl [Kumul/Hami], 800-900m.
Wingspan: 52--75mm. Varies, with some resembling a pale, creamy H. hippophaes bienerti. Easily mistaken for a hybrid between H. euphorbiae and H. hippophaes bienerti. The pink area of the hindwing can be intense or faint.
A species of Elaeagnus/Apocynum thickets along river-banks and on river flood-plains.
China: 7.vii (Xayar).
OVUM: Unknown.
LARVA: Unknown.
PUPA: Unknown.
Larval hostplants. Unknown, but the closely related Hyles apocyni (Shchetkin) is recorded in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan on Apocynum (Shchetkin, 1956; 1960). These plants grow along the drier fringes of riverine vegetation. However, searches by the first author along several rivers on the southern slopes of the Tian Shan, north of Turpan, in 1995 failed to find this species, even though Apocynum was present.
Unknown.
China: Xinjiang (Hami/Kumul; Barkol; Xayar).
Endemic to China.
Holarctic; western Palaearctic region. Pleistocene refuge: Monocentric -- Turanoeremic refuge.
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