Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei

Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Sphingonaepiopsis
Species: S. ansorgei
Binomial name
Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei
Rothschild, 1904[1]
Synonyms
  • Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei featheri Clark, 1928

Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Open habitats from northern South Africa to East Africa in the east and to Angola in the west.[2]

The length of the forewings is 14–15 mm. The groundcolour of the body and forewings is reddish. Dark spots are absent, but replaced by a broad, rather diffuse diagonal band. The hindwings are uniform reddish.

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
  2. "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species" (PDF). Biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-10-26.


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