Polyptychopsis
Genus of moths
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Polyptychopsis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. It contains only one species, Polyptychopsis marshalli, which is known from Brachystegia woodland in large parts of Africa.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Tribe: | Smerinthini |
| Genus: | Polyptychopsis Carcasson, 1968 |
| Species: | P. marshalli |
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| Polyptychopsis marshalli | |
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The wingspan is 53–58 mm.
Subspecies
- Polyptychopsis marshalli marshalli (Zimbabwe to Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
- Polyptychopsis marshalli auriguttatus (Gehlen, 1934) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Tanzania and probably eastern Angola)
- Polyptychopsis marshalli meridianus (Kernbach, 1963) (Zimbabwe)
