Platysphinx constrigilis | |
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Platysphinx constrigilis constrigilis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Platysphinx |
Species: | P. constrigilis
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Binomial name | |
Platysphinx constrigilis | |
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Platysphinx constrigilis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Francis Walker in 1869. It is known from Africa.[2]
The larvae feed on Alchornea cordifolia, Baphia pubescens and Macrolobium macrophyllum.[3]
Subspecies
[edit]- Platysphinx constrigilis constrigilis (forests from Cameroon to Angola, the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya)
- Platysphinx constrigilis lamtoi Pierre, 1989 (Ivory Coast)
References
[edit]- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 1–173 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Platysphinx constrigilis constrigilis (Walker, 1869)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 11, 2018.