Levant Hawk Moth

Thank you :)

Common name would be: Levant Hawk Moth.

Thank you all very much for your help!

Thanks gatorfellows. The indicated area is quite a tricky one: Southeastern part of Europe? Western part of Asia? Extended Middle East? There are quite a lot of natural barriers around and most important, almost no information about the leps of this aera. Ticholovets is preparing a bulk of guides for it.

bayucca I found this list of range information for your suggestion; Distribution: Europe (Bulgaria, Crete, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey), Near East, East Palearctic, North Africa and Oriental Region.

Theretro alecto??? Not sure, please, verify!
http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/t_ale...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theretra_al...
http://www.naturamediterraneo.com/forum/...

Hopefully this will help you ID your moth on your side of the world. Here in Canada, US, Central and South America we have a very similar sphinx moth; Tersa Sphinx, Xylophanes tersa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophanes_...