Dovania poecila

Dovania poecila is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests (usually above 4,000 feet) in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi.[2]

Dovania poecila
Male Dovania poecila poecila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Dovania
Species:
D. poecila
Binomial name
Dovania poecila
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903[1]
Synonyms
  • Dovania poecila inops Gehlen, 1951

The length of the forewings is 30–35 mm. The head and body are blackish, woolly, with a series of white transverse bands interrupted at the dorsum on the abdomen. The forewings are very dark purplish brown with faint, irregular paler transverse bands, a small white stigma and two prominent white lines at the apex. The hindwings are bright coppery, but blackish near the inner margin.

The larvae feed on Acanthus pubescens.[3]

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 1–173 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Dovania poecila Rothschild & Jordan, 1903". Afromoths. Retrieved December 5, 2018.


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