Xanthopan morganii (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

4. Xanthopan morganii (Walker, 1856)

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Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 6°00'44"S, 39°23'11"E, 11.iv.2021, 1 specimen, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

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

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

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Figure 2. Examples of Sphinginae and Macroglossinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758); (B) Xanthopan morganii (Walker, 1856); (C) Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758). Scale bar = 10 mm.