| Temnoripais | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Subtribe: | Macroglossina |
| Genus: | Temnoripais Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 |
| Species: | T. lasti |
| Binomial name | |
| Temnoripais lasti (Rothschild, 1894)[1] | |
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Temnoripais is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, consisting of one species, Temnoripais lasti, which is known from Madagascar.[2]
The forewing upperside has a rather broad and brown basal band. Thepostmedian line is angled. The discal spot is minute and white. The hindwing upperside is basally yellow, the median band is orange, diffuse and merges distally into the wide blackish marginal band.
References
Wikispecies has information related to Temnoripais.
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ 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.
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