Afrosphinx

Afrosphinx
Afrosphinx amabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Afrosphinx
Carcasson, 1968
Species: A. amabilis
Binomial name
Afrosphinx amabilis
(Jordan, 1911)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polyptychus amabilis Jordan, 1911
  • Polyptychus amabilis occidens Clark, 1927

Afrosphinx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing one species, Afrosphinx amabilis, which is known from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland.[2]

The length of the forewings is 30–32 mm. The head, body and forewings of the males are red to orange brown speckled with brown. There are two curved, oblique, parallel antemedial lines. There is a diffuse ochreous orange discal patch and a similar, but smaller area at the apex. The hindwings are redder at the base, more densely speckled with brown with a blackish suffusion near inner the margin and the tornus. The female is much redder with paler discal markings.

References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species" (PDF). Biodiversitylibrary.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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