Nephele maculosa

Nephele maculosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Nephele
Species:	N. maculosa
Binomial name
Nephele maculosa Rothschild & Jordan, 1903[1]
Synonyms
Nephele funebris ovifera Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Nephele maculosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is only known from the Congo-Cameroon equatorial forest belt.^[2]

It is a very similar to Nephele funebris, but larger and more variegated.

References

1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Nephele/maculosa.html. Retrieved 2011-10-25. 
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 2011-10-25. 

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