Ceridia heuglini

Ceridia heuglini
Ceridia heuglini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Ceridia
Species: C. heuglini
Binomial name
Ceridia heuglini
(R. Felder, 1874)[1]
Synonyms
  • Smerinthus heuglini R. Felder, 1874

Ceridia heuglini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and grassland from Mali and Chad to Sudan, the Central African Republic and Uganda.[2]

The length of the forewings is about 30 mm. The ground colour of the forewings and body is pale pinkish brown. There is a chocolate coloured narrow median stripe on the head and thorax. The forewings have a conspicuous chocolate marking which touches the costa, leaving the intervening areas pinkish brown. There is a large rounded chocolate stigma touching the lower part of this chocolate marking and a rounded chocolate marking edged proximally with pale pink at the apex. There are several faint, sinuous dark transverse lines. The hindwings are paler, more pink and unmarked.

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Ceridia/heuglini.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
  2. ^ "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Biodiversitylibrary.org. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/jeanhs/XXVI%20No.3%20(115)_1_1967_Carcasson.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
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