Nephele vau

Species of moth

Nephele vau
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Nephele
Species:
N. vau
Binomial name
Nephele vau
(Walker, 1856)[1]
Synonyms
  • Zonilia vau Walker, 1856
  • Zonilia raffrayi Oberthür, 1878
  • Zonilia schimperi H. Lucas, 1857

Nephele vau is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is common throughout most of Africa south of the Sahara, but rarer in southern Africa.[2]

References

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  2. ^ 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 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Taxon identifiers
Nephele vau
  • Wikidata: Q2418682
  • Wikispecies: Nephele vau
  • AfroMoths: NEPHVAUV
  • BioLib: 651209
  • BOLD: 16234
  • CoL: 46Y7V
  • EoL: 887672
  • GBIF: 5124093
  • iNaturalist: 631688
  • IRMNG: 11023386
  • LepIndex: 55918
  • NCBI: 1087643
  • Open Tree of Life: 3093734


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