Thamnoecha

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Thamnoecha
Thamnoecha uniformis, female, upperside. India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla.jpg
Female, upperside, from Shimla in India
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Sphingini
Genus: Thamnoecha
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species:
T. uniformis
Binomial name
Thamnoecha uniformis
(Butler, 1875) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hyloicus uniformis Butler, 1875
  • Pseudosphinx concolorHampson, 1893

Thamnoecha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. Its only species, Thamnoecha uniformis, first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875, is known from the Himalayas. [2]

The wingspan is 50–54 mm for males and 53–66 mm for females. It is similar in colour to Sphinx pinastri and Sphinx caligineus . Adults are on wing from March to August.

The larval food plant is thought to be chir pine ( Pinus roxburghii ).

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References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. "Individual Variation and Sexual Dimorphism in Thamnoecha uniformis (Butler 1875), Lepidoptera: Sphingidae" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-01.