Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 184

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

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scientific name

Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904
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Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Ansorge´s Hawklet Hawkmoth

SYNONYM(S): Sphingonaepiopsis featheri Clark, 1928 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Nyika plateau, in Muchinga Province ; Abercorn [now Mbala], in Northern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Rubiaceae species ( Hedyotis sp. , Oldenlandia sp. , and Spermacoci sp.) ( African Moths, 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Rothschild 1919.

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