Nephele bipartita Butler, 1878

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 : 116

18. Nephele bipartita Butler, 1878

Fig 4C

Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 7 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

Distribution. Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Togo, and Uganda ( De Prins & De Prins 2022; this study).

Remarks. First record from Zanzibar Island.

Figures

Figure 4. Examples of Macroglossinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779); (B) Nephele argentifera (Walker, 1856); (C) N. bipartita Butler, 1878; (D) N. funebris (Fabricius, 1793); (E) N. peneus (Cramer, 1776); (F) Theretra capensis (Linnaeus, 1764). Scale bar = 10 mm.