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Rhadinopasa

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Rhadinopasa is a monotypic genus of moth in the family Sphingidae erected by Ferdinand Karsch in 1891. Its only species, Rhadinopasa hornimani, was first described by Herbert Druce in 1880. It is known from lowland forest from Gabon, Cameroon and the Central African Republic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda and Tanzania.[2]

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Rhadinopasa
Rhadinopasa hornimani hornimani
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Smerinthini
Genus: Rhadinopasa
Karsch, 1891
Species:
R. hornimani
Binomial name
Rhadinopasa hornimani
(H. Druce, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
  • Basiana hornimani H. Druce, 1880
  • Rhadinopasa udei Karsch, 1891
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Species

  • Rhadinopasa hornimani hornimani
  • Rhadinopasa hornimani tanganyikae Clark, 1938 (Tanzania)

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