Gąsienice rzeczywiście wyglądają na wilczomleczka - determinacja po okazach dojrzałych (w skali Zachodniej Palearktyki) jest jednak tak łatwa, jak widać na zdjęciach okazów ze zbiorów.
DISTRIBUTION Hyles euphorbiae euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758)
From western Europe (Portugal (Corley, 2004)), and southern and central Europe to the Urals (Kumakov, 1977; Nupponen & Fibiger, 2002), southern western Siberia (Zolotarenko, Petrova & Shiryaev, 1978; Izerskiy, 1999; Dubatolov, pers. comm. 2010), the western and southern fringes of the Altai Mountains (Izerskiy, 1999; Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2006) and western China (Xinjiang Province (Pittaway & Kitching, 2000)). Also, Turkey (Daniel, 1939; de Freina, 1979), the Republic of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (Didmanidze, Petrov & Zolotuhin, 2013), northern Afghanistan (Ebert, 1969), northern Pakistan (Rafi et al., 2014), Kyrgyzstan (S. Toropov, pers. comm.) and the western Tian Shan (Alpheraky, 1882; Derzhavets, 1980). Not found in Corsica, Sardinia or the Balearic Islands (Pittaway, 1983b). A migrant to the north.
(It should be noted that some populations in northern Portugal and northwestern Spain appear to be hybrids of this species and Hyles tithymali gecki.)
Extra-limital range. The eastern Tian Shan (Bang-Haas, 1936), much of Xinjiang Province, China (Pittaway & Kitching, 2000), and southwestern Mongolia (Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2006).
Also, introduced into many areas of the U.S.A. and Canada to control non-native pest species of Euphorbia (Hodges, 1971; Batra, 1983). It is particularly common in Montana, Alberta and Ontario.
OTHER SUBSPECIES
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, northern Iraq and northwestern Iran as subsp. Hyles euphorbiae conspicua (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903), with an isolated population in the south-western mountains of Saudi Arabia.
From Iran and the Kopet Dag Mountains of Turkmenistan eastward to central and eastern Afghanistan, ?Kashmir, the Pamirs and western Pakistan as subsp. Hyles euphorbiae robertsi (Butler, 1880).
Farther east, in the bulk of the Altai, southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, Mongolia and north-eastern China, it is replaced by the related Hyles exilis Derzhavets, 1979.