Lycosphingia

Lycosphingia
Lycosphingia hamatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Lycosphingia
Species: L. hamatus
Binomial name
Lycosphingia hamatus
(Dewitz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
  • Smerinthus hamatus Walker, 1869

Lycosphingia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family containing only one species, Lycosphingia hamatus. It is known from forests from Liberia and Ghana to Angola, the Congo and Uganda.[2]

The length of the forewings is 29–31 mm.

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. "Revised Catalogue Of The African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Biodiversitylibrary.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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