Falcatula falcatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Falcatula |
Species: | F. falcatus |
Binomial name | |
Falcatula falcatus | |
Synonyms | |
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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. [2]
The length of the forewings is 38–42 mm for females.
The larvae feed on Sclerocarya afra , Erythrina abyssinica and Erythrina excelsa . [3]
Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is known at elevations up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.
Macroglossum milvus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Réunion and Mauritius.
Acanthosphinx is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1891. Its only species, Acanthosphinx guessfeldti, the widow sphinx, was first described by Hermann Dewitz in 1879. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.
Falcatula is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae erected by Robert Herbert Carcasson in 1968.
Euchloron is a monotypic moth genus of the family Sphingidae first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875. Its only species, Euchloron megaera, the verdant hawk, is known from most of Africa and Yemen. It is a migratory species.
Platysphinx constrigilis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Francis Walker in 1869. It is known from Africa.
Basiothia medea, the small verdant hawk, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is common in open habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar. It is however probably absent from the equatorial forest belt, except as a vagrant. The species is an active migrant.
Polyptychoides grayii, or Gray's polyptychus, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from eastern Africa, south to South Africa.
Pseudoclanis occidentalis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Falcatula cymatodes is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forests in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, and the Central African Republic.
Falcatula penumbra is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Falcatula tamsi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Ethiopia.
Falcatula svaricki is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Ethiopia and Kenya.
Lophostethus dumolinii is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from most habitats, except desert and high mountains throughout the Ethiopian Region, excluding Madagascar and the Cape in South Africa.
Coelonia fulvinotata is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. It is known from most habitats throughout the Afrotropical realm, from the Gambia east to Ethiopia and south to northern South Africa and Madagascar.
Dovania poecila is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi.
Cephonodes apus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the Islands of Réunion and Mauritius.
Nephele densoi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.
Nephele oenopion is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Africa.
Theretra capensis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from woodland and open habitats from the Cape to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique and East Africa.