Temnora sardanus
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| Temnora sardanus | |
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| File:Temnora sardanus sardanus male Nyamebe Bepo.jpg | |
| T. s. sardanus, Ghana | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Temnora |
| Species: | T. sardanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Temnora sardanus | |
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Temnora sardanus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests and heavy woodland from Sierra Leone to Congo and Angola, then to Zimbabwe and East Africa.[2]
The length of the forewings is 19–21 mm for males and 23–25 mm for females.
Subspecies
[edit | edit source]- Temnora sardanus sardanus
- Temnora sardanus canui Darge, 1991 (São Tomé & Princípe)
- Temnora sardanus hirsutus Darge, 2004 (Tanzania)
References
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Categories:
- Temnora
- Moths described in 1856
- Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Lepidoptera of Uganda
- Lepidoptera of West Africa
- Lepidoptera of Angola
- Insects of the Central African Republic
- Lepidoptera of the Republic of the Congo
- Lepidoptera of Gabon
- Lepidoptera of Tanzania
- Lepidoptera of Zimbabwe
- Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
- Macroglossini stubs