Polyptychopsis

Polyptychopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Polyptychopsis
Carcasson, 1968
Species: P. marshalli
Binomial name
Polyptychopsis marshalli
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polyptychus marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
  • Polyptychus auriguttatus Gehlen, 1934
  • Polyptychus marshalli meridianus Kernbach, 1963

Polyptychopsis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family. It contains only one species, Polyptychopsis marshalli, which is known from Brachystegia woodland in large parts of Africa.[2]

The wingspan is 53–58 mm.

Subspecies

  • Polyptychopsis marshalli marshalli (Zimbabwe to Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
  • Polyptychopsis marshalli auriguttatus (Gehlen, 1934) (Democratic Republic of Congo, south-western Tanzania and probably eastern Angola)
  • Polyptychopsis marshalli meridianus (Kernbach, 1963) (Zimbabwe)

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. 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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