Temnora fumosa (Walker, 1856)

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Burchalovskaia, Polina D. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2022, A review of the Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Zanzibar (Unguja) Island (Tanzania), Ecologica Montenegrina 57, pp. 109-117 : 113

9. Temnora fumosa (Walker, 1856)

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Material examined: TANZANIA: Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa , 6°00'10"S, 39°22'47.3"E, 24.iii.2021, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg. 1 ex.; Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 2 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

Distribution. Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2022; this study).

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

Figures

Figure 3. Examples of Macroglossinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987; (B) Temnora elegans (Rothschild, 1895); (C) T. fumosa (Walker, 1856); (D) T. marginata (Walker, 1856); (E) Hippotion roseipennis (Butler, 1882); (F) H. celerio (Linnaeus, 1758). Scale bar = 10 mm.