Ceridia heuglini
| Ceridia heuglini | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Ceridia |
| Species: | C. heuglini |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceridia heuglini (R. Felder, 1874)[1] | |
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Ceridia heuglini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and grassland from Mali and Chad to Sudan, the Central African Republic and Uganda.[2]
The length of the forewings is about 30 mm. The ground colour of the forewings and body is pale pinkish brown. There is a chocolate coloured narrow median stripe on the head and thorax. The forewings have a conspicuous chocolate marking which touches the costa, leaving the intervening areas pinkish brown. There is a large rounded chocolate stigma touching the lower part of this chocolate marking and a rounded chocolate marking edged proximally with pale pink at the apex. There are several faint, sinuous dark transverse lines. The hindwings are paler, more pink and unmarked.
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" (PDF). Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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