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

^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Polyptychopsis/marshalli.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
^ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/jeanhs/XXVI%20No.3%20(115)_1_1967_Carcasson.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-01.