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Pseudopolyptychus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Sphingidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Tribe
  
Smerinthini

Scientific name
  
Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus

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Pseudopolyptychus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containging one species, Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus, which is known from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and from Ghana to Nigeria.

It is an undistinguished species, with pale brown forewings overlain with darker brown markings. The thorax is pale brown with a longitudinal dark brown median line. The proboscis is very short. The forewing upperside is pale brown with a subapical darker brown triangular patch on the costa and a dark brown line crossing the discal cell, expanding into a postmedian trapezoidal darker brown patch.

References

Pseudopolyptychus Wikipedia