Polyptychus affinis
| Polyptychus affinis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Polyptychus |
| Species: | P. affinis |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyptychus affinis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 | |
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Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forest up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.[1]
The length of the forewings is 28–30 millimetres (1.1–1.2 in) for males. The forewings are grey with a prominent black basal spot, and wavy transverse dark lines. The body is grey with a median blackish streak on the head and thorax. The hindwings are grey with a black streak near the inner margin and one or two black spots near the tornus. Females are larger. They have purplish chocolate forewings, mottled with lighter brown. The hindwings are darker than the forewings. The black inner marginal streak and tornal spots are present.
The larvae feed on Detarium senegalense and Albizia species.[2]
Taxonomy
Polyptychus retusus is sometimes treated as a valid species.[3]
References
- ↑ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species" (PDF). Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ Afromoths
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.