Rufoclanis numosae ( Wallengren, 1860 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 199

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scientific name	Rufoclanis numosae ( Wallengren, 1860 )
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Rufoclanis numosae ( Wallengren, 1860) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Wavy Polyptychus Hawkmoth or Wavy Polyptychus .

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province; Luangwa bridge, between Lusaka and Eastern Provinces .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include three Malvaceae species ( Grewia damine Gaertn. , G. flavescens Juss. and G. occidentalis L.) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Sphingidae
Genus	Rufoclanis

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