Polyptychus rougeoti

Polyptychus rougeoti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Polyptychus
Species:	P. rougeoti
Binomial name
	Polyptychus rougeoti; Carcasson, 1968

Polyptychus rougeoti is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Gabon.

The forewings are long and narrow, apex acute. The ground colour of the upperside is wood brown, mottled with olive yellow at the costa, the inner margin and in the subapical area. There is a large dark olive basal spot, and a paler olive spot at the inner margin and a triangular olive spot at the costa, before the apex. The underside of the forewings is wood brown, but much paler towards outer margin. The upperside of the hindwings is wood brown, paler at the tornus, where there is a dark brown spot. There is a long brown streak parallel to inner margin.^[1]

References[]

^ 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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[1] 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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