Pseudopolyptychus

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Pseudopolyptychus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Smerinthini
Genus: Pseudopolyptychus
Carcasson, 1968
Species:
P. foliaceus
Binomial name
Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) [1]
Synonyms
  • Polyptychus foliaceusRothschild & Jordan, 1903

Pseudopolyptychus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing one species, Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus, which is known from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and from Ghana to Nigeria. [2]

It is an undistinguished species, with pale brown forewings overlain with darker brown markings. The thorax is pale brown with a longitudinal dark brown median line. The proboscis is very short. The forewing upperside is pale brown with a subapical darker brown triangular patch on the costa and a dark brown line crossing the discal cell, expanding into a postmedian trapezoidal darker brown patch.

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References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-11-01.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. ↑ Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 1–173 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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