| Dovania poecila | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Dovania |
| Species: | D. poecila |
| Binomial name | |
| Dovania poecila Rothschild & Jordan, 1903[1] |
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Dovania poecila is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests (usually above 4,000 feet) in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi.[2]
The length of the forewings is 30-35 mm. The head and body are blackish, woolly, with a series of white transverse bands interrupted at the dorsum on the abdomen. The forewings are very dark purplish brown with faint, irregular paler transverse bands, a small white stigma and two prominent white lines at the apex. The hindwings are bright coppery, but blackish near the inner margin.
The larvae feed on Acanthus pubescens.[3]