Neopolyptychus compar
| Neopolyptychus compar | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Neopolyptychus |
| Species: | N. compar |
| Binomial name | |
| Neopolyptychus compar (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1] | |
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Neopolyptychus compar is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brachystegia woodland from Zimbabwe to Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania.[2]
The wingspan is 64–83 mm.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Brachystegia spicaeformis.
Subspecies
- Neopolyptychus compar compar (Zimbabwe to Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
- Neopolyptychus compar septentrionalis Carcasson, 1968[3] (coastal areas of Kenya and northern Tanzania)
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.