Synoecha

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Synoecha
Synoecha marmorata, male, upperside. Australia, Queensland, Clermont, Belyando Shire.jpg
Synoecha marmorata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Sphingulini
Genus: Synoecha
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species:
S. marmorata
Binomial name
Synoecha marmorata
(T. P. Lucas, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sphinx marmorataT. P. Lucas, 1891
  • Synoecha marmorata dumiganiClark, 1925

Synoecha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. Its only species, Synoecha marmorata, described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1891, is known from the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales. [2]

The wingspan is about 40 mm. Adults have fawn forewings and paler hindwings.

References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (23 February 2015). "Synoecha marmorata (T.P. Lucas, 1892)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 20 December 2018.


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