Pseudopolyptychus
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Genus: | Pseudopolyptychus Carcasson, 1968
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Species: | P. foliaceus
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Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1]
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Pseudopolyptychus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containging one species, Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus, which is known from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and from Ghana to Nigeria.[2]
It is an undistinguished species, with pale brown forewings overlain with darker brown markings. The thorax is pale brown with a longitudinal dark brown median line. The proboscis is very short. The forewing upperside is pale brown with a subapical darker brown triangular patch on the costa and a dark brown line crossing the discal cell, expanding into a postmedian trapezoidal darker brown patch.
References
- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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