Polyptychus affinis
Species of moth
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Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is known at elevations up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Polyptychus |
| Species: | P. affinis |
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| Polyptychus affinis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 | |
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The larvae feed on Detarium senegalense and Albizia species.[2]
Taxonomy
Polyptychus retusus is sometimes treated as a valid species.[3]
