Polyptychus affinis

Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is known at elevations up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.[1]

Polyptychus affinis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Polyptychus
Species:
P. affinis
Binomial name
Polyptychus affinis
Synonyms
  • Polyptychus retusus Rothschild & Jordan, 1908
  • Polyptychus pierrei Kitching & Cadiou, 2000
  • Polyptychus modestum Bernardi, 1970

The larvae feed on Detarium senegalense and Albizia species.[2]

Taxonomy

Polyptychus retusus is sometimes treated as a valid species.[3]

References
  1. 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.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Polyptychus affinis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903". Afromoths. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  3. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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