Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987

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 : 111

6. Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987

Fig 3A

Material examined: TANZANIA, Zanzibar Island, Kiwengwa Forest , dry monsoon forest, 6°00'44"S, 39°23'11"E, 2.iv.2021, 1 specimen, E. Spitsyna & V. Spitsyn leg.

Distribution. Algeria, Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania (including Zanzibar Island), Zambia, and Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2022).

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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.