Chaerocina dohertyi

Chaerocina dohertyi
Chaerocina dohertyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Chaerocina
Species: C. dohertyi
Binomial name
Chaerocina dohertyi
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903[1]

Chaerocina dohertyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forests in Kenya and Uganda.[2]

The length of the forewings is 45-49 mm. The head and thorax are dark brown, edged laterally with white. The abdomen is lighter brown. The forewings are also lighter brown speckled with blackish and with a broad basal and discal dark brown fasciae. There is a blackish ring at the end of the cell and a thick dark line running from the apex to the inner margin. The hindwings are bright red with a black base and with a black submarginal line which does not reach the costa. The underside of the body and wings is ferruginous speckled with black. The legs are whitish.

Subspecies

  • Chaerocina dohertyi dohertyi
  • Chaerocina dohertyi strangulata Darge, 2006 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Chaerocina/dohertyi.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26. 
  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 2011-10-26. 
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