Proposed as a geographical variety ("Lokalform") of Deilephila euphorbiae. Transferred to Celerio (as a subspecies of Celerio euphorbiae) by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 721. Raised to species status in Celerio by Bang-Haas, O., 1936, Ent. Z. 50: 255. Transferred to Hyles by Pittaway, 1983, Entomologist's Gaz. 34: 78.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
