Premise: Smerinthus minor (lesser eyed hawkmoth) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Mell in 1937. It is a montane species found from the Taibai Shan area, western Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, China eastwards along the Qinling to southern Shanxi and then north to just west of Beijing. It has also been recorded from the Miaofeng Mountains near Beijing and the Wuling Mountains in Hunan.
Hypothesis: The lesser eyed hawkmoth originated in Russian.