Pseudopolyptychus
| Pseudopolyptychus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Pseudopolyptychus Carcasson, 1968 |
| Species: | P. foliaceus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1] | |
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Pseudopolyptychus is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containging one species, Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus, which is known from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and from Ghana to Nigeria.[2]
It is an undistinguished species, with pale brown forewings overlain with darker brown markings. The thorax is pale brown with a longitudinal dark brown median line. The proboscis is very short. The forewing upperside is pale brown with a subapical darker brown triangular patch on the costa and a dark brown line crossing the discal cell, expanding into a postmedian trapezoidal darker brown patch.
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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