Temnora curtula | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Temnora |
Species: | T. curtula |
Binomial name | |
Temnora curtula | |
Synonyms | |
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Temnora curtula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. [3]
The length of the forewings is 17–21 mm.
Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is known at elevations up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.
Hippotion irregularis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Liberia to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. It is also found in the Usambara area of Tanzania.
Hippotion osiris is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is common throughout most of the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar and the Seychelles. Occasional vagrants have been recorded from Spain. It is uncommon on the East African coast. This species is an occasional migrant.
Hippotion rebeli is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from dry areas in northern Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Arabia.
Acanthosphinx is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1891. Its only species, Acanthosphinx guessfeldti, the widow sphinx, was first described by Hermann Dewitz in 1879. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.
Avinoffia is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae containing only one species, Avinoffia hollandi. It is known from Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Liberia.
Platysphinx stigmatica is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Nigeria to the Congo, Angola and western Uganda.
Polyptychoides grayii, or Gray's polyptychus, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from eastern Africa, south to South Africa.
Leucophlebia afra is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Senegal to northern Uganda and Sudan in the east, and to Angola in the west.
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.
Praedora leucophaea is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from dry bush areas from northern South Africa to Kenya.
Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from open habitats from northern South Africa to East Africa in the east and to Angola in the west.
Temnora marginata is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is known from savannah and woodland in eastern and southern Africa.
Temnora nephele is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.
Temnora elisabethae is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Congo to Uganda.
Temnora elegans is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from western Africa and in savanna from Angola to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and East Africa.
Theretra jugurtha is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from wooded areas in tropical Africa.
Theretra perkeo is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the arid areas north of the equatorial forest belt, from Senegal to northern Uganda.
Theretra orpheus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from most of Africa.
Centroctena imitans is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from wooded areas of eastern Africa, from Mozambique to eastern Kenya.