Nephele funebris (Fabricius, 1793)

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Burchalovskaia, Polina D. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2022, A review of the Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Zanzibar (Unguja) Island (Tanzania), Ecologica Montenegrina 57, pp. 109-117 : 116

19. Nephele funebris (Fabricius, 1793)

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Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 6 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

Distribution. Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2022; this study).

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

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Figure 4. Examples of Macroglossinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779); (B) Nephele argentifera (Walker, 1856); (C) N. bipartita Butler, 1878; (D) N. funebris (Fabricius, 1793); (E) N. peneus (Cramer, 1776); (F) Theretra capensis (Linnaeus, 1764). Scale bar = 10 mm.