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Polyptychopsis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Sphingidae

Scientific name
  
Polyptychopsis marshalli

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Species
  
P. marshalli

Rank
  
Genus

Polyptychopsis

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Polyptychopsis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family. It contains only one species, Polyptychopsis marshalli, which is known from Brachystegia woodland in large parts of Africa.

The wingspan is 53–58 mm.

Subspecies

  • Polyptychopsis marshalli marshalli (Zimbabwe to Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
  • Polyptychopsis marshalli auriguttatus (Gehlen, 1934) (Democratic Republic of Congo, south-western Tanzania and probably eastern Angola)
  • Polyptychopsis marshalli meridianus (Kernbach, 1963) (Zimbabwe)

    • References

    Polyptychopsis Wikipedia
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