Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 110-111

5. Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 5°59'S, 39°21'E, 24.iii-12.iv.2021, 6 specimens, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

Distribution. Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2022).

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Figure 2. Examples of Sphinginae and Macroglossinae species from Zanzibar Island (collection of RMBH): (A) Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758); (B) Xanthopan morganii (Walker, 1856); (C) Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758). Scale bar = 10 mm.