''Polyptychopsis'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Sphingidae
The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as hornworms. It includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, but species ar ...
. It contains only one species, ''Polyptychopsis marshalli'', which is known from ''
Brachystegia
''Brachystegia'' is a genus of tree of the subfamily Detarioideae that is native to tropical Africa.
Trees of the genus are commonly known as miombo, and are dominant in the miombo woodlands of central and southern tropical Africa. The Zambezia ...
'' woodland in large parts of Africa.
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...
is 53–58 mm.
Subspecies
*''Polyptychopsis marshalli marshalli'' (Zimbabwe to Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
*''Polyptychopsis marshalli auriguttatus''
(Gehlen, 1934) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Tanzania and probably eastern Angola)
*''Polyptychopsis marshalli meridianus''
(Kernbach, 1963) (Zimbabwe)
References
Smerinthini
Monotypic moth genera
Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
Lepidoptera of Angola
Lepidoptera of Malawi
Lepidoptera of Tanzania
Lepidoptera of Zimbabwe
Taxa named by Robert Herbert Carcasson
Miombo
Sphingidae genera
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