Nephele monostigma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Nephele |
Species: | N. monostigma |
Binomial name | |
Nephele monostigma | |
Nephele monostigma is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from highland forests in the Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya. [2]
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.
Leptoclanis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing one species Leptoclanis pulchra, it is known from Brachystegia woodland from Angola and Zimbabwe to Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and southern Tanzania.
Platysphinx stigmatica is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Nigeria to the Congo, Angola and western Uganda.
Neopolyptychus pygarga is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in western Africa, including Cameroon and Nigeria.
Neopolyptychus consimilis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Savanna from southern Sudan to the Congo.
Neopolyptychus prionites is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forests and heavy woodland from Guinea to the Congo and western Uganda.
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.
Phylloxiphia bicolor is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo and Angola.
Phylloxiphia vicina is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Liberia to Nigeria and to Tanzania and Zambia.
Phylloxiphia oberthueri is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forests from Liberia and Ivory Coast east to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Leucophlebia afra is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Senegal to northern Uganda and Sudan in the east, and to Angola in the west.
Platysphinx vicaria is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Sierra Leone to Nigeria, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
Temnora funebris is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by William Jacob Holland in 1893. It is known from the forests of western Africa to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Temnora radiata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from West Africa to Angola.
Nephele comma is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is very common throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar.
Nephele maculosa is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is only known from the Congo-Cameroon equatorial forest belt.
Nephele bipartita is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forest and heavy woodland from West Africa to the coast of Kenya and Tanzania and to Malawi and Mozambique.
Nephele peneus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests and woodland from Senegal to East Africa, Angola and Delagoa Bay.
Nephele accentifera, the accented hawk, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Palisot de Beauvois in 1821. It is common in most habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, excluding Madagascar and the Cape Peninsula.