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Leptoclanis pulchra (Beautiful Hawkmoth)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum: Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda > Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola > Holometabola > Panorpida > Amphiesmenoptera > Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) > Glossata > Coelolepida > Myoglossata > Neolepidoptera > Heteroneura > Ditrysia > Apoditrysia > Obtectomera > Macrolepidoptera > Bombycoidea > Family: Sphingidae (hawkmoths) > Subfamily: Sphinginae

Leptoclanis Pulchra Female

Leptoclanis pulchra female [photo J. Joannou ©]

Distribution

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, DRC to Tanzania (Pinhey 1975 p. 135).

Host-plants

Eriosema engleranum

Family: Fabaceae

Recorded in Kroon (1999).

  
Morus (mulberries)

Family: Moraceae

Recorded in Pinhey (1975 p. 135).

  
 

Publications

  • Kroon, D.M. 1999. Lepidoptera of Southern Africa - Host-plants and other Associations. A Catalogue. Published by the author and Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, P.O. Box 477, Jukskei Park 2153, South Africa. 

  • Pinhey, E.C.G. 1975. Moths of Southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town.