Poliana wintgensi
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| Poliana wintgensi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Poliana |
| Species: | P. wintgensi |
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| Poliana wintgensi (Strand, 1910)[1] | |
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Poliana wintgensi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and dry bush from eastern Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.[2]
The length of the forewings is 34–40 mm. It is very similar to Poliana buchholzi, but smaller and darker, the ground colour being almost blackish in fresh specimens, fading to chocolate in old specimens. The underside of the thorax and abdomen is white. The sexes are superficially identical.
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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