Pseudoangonyx

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Pseudoangonyx
Pseudoangonyx excellens, male, upperside. Indonesia, Dutch N. Guinea, 25 miles south of Wangaar, Nomnagihe.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Pseudoangonyx
Eitschberger, 2010
Species:
P. excellens
Binomial name
Pseudoangonyx excellens
(Rothschild, 1911) [1]
Synonyms
  • Panacra excellensRothschild, 1911
  • Angonyx excellens
  • Panacra excellens darlingtoniClark, 1935
  • Agonyx darlingtoni

Pseudoangonyx is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae described by Ulf Eitschberger in 2010. Its only species, Pseudoangonyx excellens, described by Walter Rothschild in 1911, is known from Aru, Papua New Guinea and northern Queensland. [2]

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
  2. "Angonyx excellens (Rothschild, 1911)". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation. Retrieved 3 December 2018.