Hyles nicaea orientalis (Taxonomy)
General description:
Synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies as an aberration by Gehlen, 1932, in Seitz (ed.), Die Gross-Schmett. Erde2 (suppl.): 153, then with Hyles nicaea crimaea by Pittaway, 1993, The hawkmoths of the Western Palaearctic: 149. The inverted synonymy was corrected by Danner, Eitschberger & Surholt, 1998, Herbipoliana4 (1): 223.