Synoecha

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Synoecha
File:Synoecha marmorata, male, upperside. Australia, Queensland, Clermont, Belyando Shire.jpg
Synoecha marmorata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Sphingulini
Genus: Synoecha
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species:
S. marmorata
Binomial name
Synoecha marmorata
Synonyms
  • Sphinx marmorata T. P. Lucas, 1891
  • Synoecha marmorata dumigani Clark, 1925

Synoecha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. Its only species, Synoecha marmorata, described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1891, is known from the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales.[2]

The wingspan is about 40 mm. Adults have fawn forewings and paler hindwings.

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