Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Sphingidae Scientific name Dovania poecila | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dovania Rank Subspecies | |
Dovania poecila is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests (usually above 4,000 feet) in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi.
The length of the forewings is 30–35 mm. The head and body are blackish, woolly, with a series of white transverse bands interrupted at the dorsum on the abdomen. The forewings are very dark purplish brown with faint, irregular paler transverse bands, a small white stigma and two prominent white lines at the apex. The hindwings are bright coppery, but blackish near the inner margin.
The larvae feed on Acanthus pubescens.
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