Hippotion irregularis

Hippotion irregularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Hippotion
Species: H. irregularis
Binomial name
Hippotion irregularis
(Walker, 1856)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pergesa irregularis Walker, 1856
  • Theretra crossei Rothschild, 1896

Hippotion irregularis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Liberia to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. It is also found in the Usambara area of Tanzania.[2]

The length of the forewings is 33–36 mm. The body and forewings are olive-ochreous. The forewings are slightly mottled with brown and marked with a few faint oblique lines, evenly curved from the inner margin to the apex and crenulate near the margin. There is a small blackish stigma and a series of blackish dots at the veins running from the middle of the inner margin to the apex. The hindwings are dark brown with a pale spot at the tornus.

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