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Lycosphingia

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Lycosphingia is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae containing only one species, Lycosphingia hamatus. It is known from forests from Liberia and Ghana to Angola, the Congo and Uganda.[2]

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Lycosphingia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Smerinthini
Genus: Lycosphingia
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species:
L. hamatus
Binomial name
Lycosphingia hamatus
(Dewitz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
  • Smerinthus hamatus Walker, 1869
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The length of the forewings is 29–31 mm.

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