Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856b) * COMMON NAME(S): Balsam striped hawkmoth or Balsam Striped Hawk. SYNONYM(S): Hippotion pinastrina (Butler, 1877a). IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in the Southern Province; Chirundu, University of Zambia in Lusaka ** and Kafue, all three localities in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Onagraceae species (Jussiaea repens L.) in South Africa (Fawcett 1901); one Araceae species (Anchomanes difformis (Blume) Engl.)) and two Convolvulaceae species (Ipomoea pileata Roxb. and I. cairica (L.) Sweet) in Nigeria (MacNulty 1970); one Balsaminaceae species (Impatiens sp.) in South Africa (Pinhey 1960) and; four Onagraceae species (Ludwigia stenorraphe (Brenan) H.Hara, L. octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H.Raven., L. affinis (DC.) H.Hara and L. erecta (L.) H.Hara) in Côte d’Ivoire (Vuattoux et al. 1989). The following are listed as larval foodplants of the taxon by the African Moths (2019) website without specifying in which of the countries named above they are found: five Onagraceae species (Ludwigia adscendens (L.) H.Hara, L. stenorraphe (Brenan) H.Hara, L. octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H.Raven, L. affinis (DC.) H.Hara, L. erecta (L.) H.Hara); one Araceae species (Anchomanes difformis (Blume) Engl.); one Balsaminaceae species (Impatiens sp.) and one Convolvulaceae species (Ipomoea pileata Roxb). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bingham et al. 2010; Darge et al. 2011; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fawcett 1901; MacNulty1970; Pinhey 1960; Vuattoux et al. 1989.

Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434