Poliana buchholzi

Poliana buchholzi
Poliana buchholzi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Poliana
Species: P. buchholzi
Binomial name
Poliana buchholzi
(Plötz, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
  • Sphinx buchholzi Plötz, 1880
  • Protoparce weigli Möschler, 1887
  • Protoparce laucheana Druce, 1882

Poliana buchholzi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from western Africa to Uganda and western Kenya.[2]

The length of the forewings is 41–45 mm. The forewings are olive grey, variously mottled with whitish and transversely banded with numerous crenulate blackish lines. The stigma is whitish and prominent. The hindwings are grey, but whitish near the tornus and the inner margin. The body is olive grey above, mottled with whitish and blackish and pink below. There are two ochreous yellow hair tufts bordered with black near the base of the abdomen above.

References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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