Polyptychoides | |
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Polyptychoides grayii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Tribe: | Smerinthini |
Genus: | Polyptychoides Carcasson, 1968 |
Polyptychoides is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae erected by Robert Herbert Carcasson in 1968. [1]
Polyptychus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. These middle-sized, light-brown moths are found in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Falcatula is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae erected by Robert Herbert Carcasson in 1968.
Neopolyptychus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae first described by Robert Herbert Carcasson in 1968.
Pseudoclanis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae erected by Walter Rothschild in 1894. They are found in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula.
Rufoclanis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae erected by Robert Herbert Carcasson in 1968.
Smerinthini is a tribe of moths of the family Sphingidae. The genus was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Herbert C. Robinson in 1865.
Chaerocina is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. The genus was erected by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903.
Temnora is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae.
Polyptychoides grayii, or Gray's polyptychus, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from eastern Africa, south to South Africa.
Polyptychoides niloticus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Zambia to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Polyptychoides digitatus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from heavy forest up to 8,000 feet from Liberia and Angola to Uganda and western Kenya.
Polyptychoides erosus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from highland forest in Kenya and Tanzania, east of the Rift Valley.
Antinephele lunulata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan in 1903, and is known from forests and wooded habitats from Sierra Leone to Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, as well as Madagascar.
Temnora sardanus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests and heavy woodland from Sierra Leone to Congo and Angola, then to Zimbabwe and East Africa.
Temnora rungwe is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Tanzania and Malawi.
Theretra jugurtha is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from wooded areas in tropical Africa.
Theretra orpheus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from most of Africa.