Temnora crenulata

Temnora crenulata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya, with an isolated population in the Usambara Mountains of north-eastern Tanzania.[2]

Temnora crenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Sphingidae
Genus:
Temnora
Species:
T. crenulata
Binomial name
Temnora crenulata
(Holland, 1893)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ocyton crenulata Holland, 1893

Description

The length of the forewings is 22–28 mm. The head and body are grey. There is a narrow elevated blackish crest on the head, becoming buff on the thorax. The apex of the forewing is acute. The forewings are grey, mottled and lined with blackish. There is a reddish-brown bar running from the middle of the costa which is more clearly defined distally than proximally. The hindwings are dark greyish brown except at tornus and inner margin, where they are grey. There is a series of pinkish-buff spots at the posterior margin of the abdominal sternites and a series of creamy spots at each side. The abdominal tufts are bright red.

Subspecies
  • Temnora crenulata crenulata
  • Temnora crenulata obsoleta Darge, 2004 (Tanzania)

References
  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  2. Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum. 26 (3): 1–173 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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