Temnora crenulata

Temnora crenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Temnora
Species:	T. crenulata
Binomial name
Temnora crenulata (Holland, 1893) [1]
Synonyms
Ocyton crenulataHolland, 1893

Temnora crenulata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya, with an isolated population in the Usambara Mountains of north-eastern Tanzania. ^[2]

Description

The length of the forewings is 22–28 mm. The head and body are grey. There is a narrow elevated blackish crest on the head, becoming buff on the thorax. The apex of the forewing is acute. The forewings are grey, mottled and lined with blackish. There is a reddish-brown bar running from the middle of the costa which is more clearly defined distally than proximally. The hindwings are dark greyish brown except at tornus and inner margin, where they are grey. There is a series of pinkish-buff spots at the posterior margin of the abdominal sternites and a series of creamy spots at each side. The abdominal tufts are bright red.

Subspecies

• Temnora crenulata crenulata
• Temnora crenulata obsoletaDarge, 2004 (Tanzania)

References

1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
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.

Further reading

• Owen, D.F. (1972). "Species diversity in tropical Sphingidae and a systematic list of species collected in Sierra Leone". Journal of Natural History. 6 (2): 177–194. doi:10.1080/00222937200770171. ISSN   0022-2933.
• Owen, D. F. (2009). "Species diversity and seasonal abundance in tropical Sphingidae (Lepidoptera)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London A. 44 (10–12): 162–168. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1969.tb00823.x. ISSN   0375-0418.
• Kingston, A. J.; Nummelin, M. (1998). "Seasonality and Abundance Of Sphingids in a Garden on the Lower Slopes of the Uluguru Mountains in Morogoro Township in Tanzania". Journal of East African Natural History. 87 (1): 213–220. doi: 10.2982/0012-8317(1998)87[213:SAAOSI]2.0.CO;2 . ISSN   0012-8317.