Rank Species | Genus Dolbina Order Butterflies and moths | |
Similar Dolbina, Butterflies and moths, Rethera komarovi, Sphingonaepiopsis gorgoniades, Smerinthus kindermannii | ||
Dolbina elegans (ash hawkmoth) is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Ukraine, Moldavia, through eastern Romania and eastern and southern Bulgaria, northern Greece, western and southern Turkey to northern Syria, western Jordan, Israel, northern Iraq and northern Iran.
The wingspan is 40–53 millimetres (1.6–2.1 in). There are two to three generations per year. Adults are on wing from April/May to early September. In Europe they are mainly found in July and in April in southern Bulgaria.
The larvae probably feed on Fraxinus species.
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