Afrosphinx
| Afrosphinx | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Afrosphinx Carcasson, 1968 |
| Species: | A. amabilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Afrosphinx amabilis (Jordan, 1911)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Afrosphinx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing one species, Afrosphinx amabilis, which is known from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland.[2]
The length of the forewings is 30–32 mm. The head, body and forewings of the males are red to orange brown speckled with brown. There are two curved, oblique, parallel antemedial lines. There is a diffuse ochreous orange discal patch and a similar, but smaller area at the apex. The hindwings are redder at the base, more densely speckled with brown with a blackish suffusion near inner the margin and the tornus. The female is much redder with paler discal markings.
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species" (PDF). Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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