Hypaedalea butleri
| Hypaedalea butleri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Hypaedalea |
| Species: | H. butleri |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypaedalea butleri Rothschild, 1894[1] | |
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Hypaedalea butleri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo and Uganda.[2]
The length of the forewings is 25–27 mm for males and 25–27 mm for females. The thorax has a large green median dorsal patch that extends onto the head and is laterally bordered by a brown line. The abdomen is pale yellowish-brown. The thorax and abdomen are buff-yellow ventrally. The forewing upperside is purplish-brown with irregular narrow dark brown transverse lines, a minute discal spot and a broad well defined very irregular dark purple brown marginal band. The hindwing upperside is uniformly dark brown.
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-10-26.