Andriasa contraria Walker, 1856

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 : 110

1. Andriasa contraria Walker, 1856

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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, 5 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

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

Figures

Figure 1. Examples of Smerinthinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Pseudoclanis postica (Walker, 1856); (B) Andriasa contraria Walker, 1856. Scale bar = 10 mm.