Neopolyptychus compar

Neopolyptychus compar
Neopolyptychus compar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Neopolyptychus
Species: N. compar
Binomial name
Neopolyptychus compar
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polyptychus compar Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Neopolyptychus compar is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brachystegia woodland from Zimbabwe to Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania.[2]

The wingspan is 64-83 mm.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Brachystegia spicaeformis.

Subspecies

  • Neopolyptychus compar compar (Zimbabwe to Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
  • Neopolyptychus compar septentrionalis Carcasson, 1968[3] (coastal areas of Kenya and northern Tanzania)

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Neopolyptychus/compar.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. 
  3. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Neopolyptychus/compar/septentrionalis?view=966728f0-ae51-11dd-ad8b-0800200c9a66. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
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