Temnora curtula

Temnora curtula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Temnora
Species:	T. curtula
Binomial name
	Temnora curtula; Rothschild & Jordan, 1908[1][2]
Synonyms
	Temnora kala Darge, 1975;

Temnora curtula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests in Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.[3]

The length of the forewings is 17–21 mm. The upperside of the head, thorax and abdomen is slate-grey, with a blackish-brown medial crest on the head and thorax. The underside of the palps, thorax and base of the abdomen are dirty light brown-fawn and the remainder of the abdomen is hazel-brown, while the edges of segments are more orange with a white dot on each side. The forewing upperside is slate-grey with a brown band running from the middle of the costa to below the middle of the outer margin, shading off proximally to a pale grey space. Distal of the band is a black patch which is somewhat glossy and dentate on the distal edge.

References

"CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
Jordan, Karl (1908). "Some New and Some Unfigured Lepidoptera". Novitates Zoologicae. 15 (1): 260.
Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Description of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 92.

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[1] "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.

[Jordan,_1908-2] Jordan, Karl (1908). "Some New and Some Unfigured Lepidoptera". Novitates Zoologicae. 15 (1): 260.

[Carcasson,_1967-3] Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Description of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 92.