''Dolbina elegans'', the ash hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by

Andreas Bang-Haas Andreas Bang-Haas (6 December 1846 – 7 February 1925) was a Danish entomologist and insect dealer. Bang-Haas was born in Horsens. In 1879 he entered into the business of the insect dealer Otto Staudinger. He married Staudinger's daughter ...

in 1912. It is found from Ukraine, Moldavia, through eastern Romania and eastern and southern Bulgaria, northern Greece, western and southern Turkey to northern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, western Jordan, Israel, northern Iraq and northern Iran. The wingspan is . There are two to three generations per year. Adults are on wing from April and May to early September. In Europe they are mainly found in July and in April in southern Bulgaria. The larvae probably feed on ''

Fraxinus ''Fraxinus'' (), common name, commonly called ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous, though a number of Subtropics, subtropic ...

'' species.

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* Dolbina Moths described in 1912 Moths of Europe Moths of Asia Taxa named by Andreas Bang-Haas {{Sphingulini-stub