Centroctena imitans | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Centroctena |
Species: | C. imitans |
Binomial name | |
Centroctena imitans | |
Synonyms | |
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Centroctena imitans is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from wooded areas of eastern Africa, from Mozambique to eastern Kenya. [2]
Hippotion dexippus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from dry areas in eastern Kenya.
Hippotion socotrensis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from dry areas from eastern Kenya to southern Ethiopia and probably Somalia. It is also present on Socotra.
Hippotion stigma is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from arid regions of eastern and northern Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Macroglossum trochilus, the African hummingbird hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1823. It is very common in most habitats throughout southern and eastern Africa and in the Comoro Islands.
Microclanis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing one species, Microclanis erlangeri, which is known from arid bush from central Tanzania to eastern and northern Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Neoclanis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing one species, Neoclanis basalis, which is known from dry bush and woodland from Zimbabwe and Angola to Zambia, Tanzania and eastern Kenya.
Callosphingia is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing one species, Callosphingia circe, which is known from semi-desert and arid scrub throughout eastern Africa.
Polyptychopsis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. It contains only one species, Polyptychopsis marshalli, which is known from Brachystegia woodland in large parts of Africa.
Platysphinx piabilis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by William Lucas Distant in 1897. It is known from savanna and other open habitats in southern and eastern Africa.
Neopolyptychus compar is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Brachystegia woodland from Zimbabwe to Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania.
Polyptychoides grayii, or Gray's polyptychus, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from eastern Africa, south to South Africa.
Falcatula falcatus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from savanna and woodland from Zimbabwe to Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, the Central African Republic and eastern Africa.
Rufoclanis numosae, the wavy polyptychus, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1860. It is known from dry bush and arid savanna in much of eastern and southern Africa.
Batocnema africanus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from open woodland and savanna from north-eastern South Africa to Zimbabwe, Tanzania and the Kenya coast.
Ceridia mira is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from dry bush in eastern and northern Kenya.
Phylloxiphia punctum is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from savanna from north-eastern South Africa to Zimbabwe, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.
Temnora swynnertoni is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in eastern Zimbabwe.
Temnora marginata is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is known from savannah and woodland in eastern and southern Africa.
Temnora scitula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from the Gambia to Congo, Angola and Uganda. There is an isolated population in eastern Tanzania.
Theretra monteironis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from dry habitats from KwaZulu-Natal to eastern Kenya.