Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bombycoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Divisio: Eulepidoptera
Sectio: Ditrysia
Subsectio: Apoditrysia
Clade: Obtectomera
Clade: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Bombycoidea

Familia: Sphingidae
Subfamilia: Sphinginae
Tribus: Sphingini
Genus: Dovania
Species: Dovania poecila
Subspecies: D. p. mirei – D. p. poecila

Name

Dovania poecila K. Jordan, 1926

Type locality: Lake Nyassa [Malawi], 50 miles S.W. of Central Angoniland, Dowa (Chiwere), 4500 ft.

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. XII.1901–I.1902, leg. H. A. Byatt.

Synonyms

  • Dovania poecila inops Gehlen, 1951

References

  • Gehlen, B., 1951: Neue afrikanische Sphingiden. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 44 (3): 251–253.
  • Jordan, K., 1926: On some Old World Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 33: 379–384.
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