Biology:Dovania poecila
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Short description: Species of moth
| Dovania poecila | |
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| Male Dovania poecila poecila | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Dovania |
| Species: | D. poecila
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| Binomial name | |
| Dovania poecila Rothschild & Jordan, 1903[1]
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Dovania poecila is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests (usually above 4,000 feet) in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi.[2]
The length of the forewings is 30–35 mm. The head and body are blackish, woolly, with a series of white transverse bands interrupted at the dorsum on the abdomen. The forewings are very dark purplish brown with faint, irregular paler transverse bands, a small white stigma and two prominent white lines at the apex. The hindwings are bright coppery, but blackish near the inner margin.
The larvae feed on Acanthus pubescens.[3]
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20120904042353/https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Dovania/poecila.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ Carcasson, R. H. (1967). "Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum 26 (3): 1–173. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51111621#page/279/mode/1up.
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2018). "Dovania poecila Rothschild & Jordan, 1903". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/DOVAPOEC. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
Wikidata ☰ Q3409691 entry
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