| Afrosphinx | |
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| 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] |
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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.