Temnora zantus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Temnora |
Species: | T. zantus |
Binomial name | |
Temnora zantus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Temnora zantus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in Congo and Uganda. [2]
It is superficially similar to Temnora atrofasciata , but the forewing outer margin is crenulated and the forewing upperside has a pale apical area separated from the dark brown median area by a distinct narrow white line and beyond which is a line of dark brown spots. The forewing inner margin is deeply concave before the tornus. The abdominal tergites have a white dot on the lower edges. The abdominal sternites have two rows of blackish spots.
Basiothia aureata, the gold dotted temnora, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in wooded habitats from Liberia to Kenya in the east and to Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the south.
Temnora albilinea is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Cameroon to Angola, Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
Temnora atrofasciata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Forests from western Africa to Congo and Uganda, with an apparently isolated population in the Usambara Mountains.
Temnora livida is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from the Gambia to Congo and Uganda.
Temnora griseata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Nigeria to southern Congo, southern Tanzania and Malawi.
Temnora subapicalis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from highland forest in central Kenya and also in Zimbabwe.
Temnora iapygoides is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo and Uganda, as well as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and from Tanzania to the Kenya coast.
Temnora scitula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from the Gambia to Congo, Angola and Uganda. There is an isolated population in eastern Tanzania.
Temnora sardanus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests and heavy woodland from Sierra Leone to Congo and Angola, then to Zimbabwe and East Africa.
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.
Temnora curtula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.
Temnora plagiata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Africa.
Temnora spiritus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya.
Temnora trapezoidea is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Nigeria to Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
Temnora hollandi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Nigeria to Congo and Uganda.
Temnora rattrayi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in Congo and Uganda.
Temnora wollastoni is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Liberia, east to the Central African Republic and then south to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
Temnora pseudopylas is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is very common in eastern and southern Africa, but absent in very dry habitats.
Temnora pylades is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.
Centroctena rutherfordi is a moth of the family Sphingidaefirst described by Herbert Druce in 1882. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Uganda and western Kenya. It is also found in the Usambara Mountains of north-eastern Tanzania.