Dovania poecila

Dovania poecila
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]
Synonyms
  • Dovania poecila inops Gehlen, 1951

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]

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