Polyptychopsis
Polyptychopsis | |
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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 | |
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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
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ "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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