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Poliana wintgensi

Synonyms: Poliana marmorata

Wikipedia Abstract

Poliana wintgensi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from savanna and dry bush from eastern Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The length of the forewings is 34–40 mm. It is very similar to Poliana buchholzi, but smaller and darker, the ground colour being almost blackish in fresh specimens, fading to chocolate in old specimens. The underside of the thorax and abdomen is white. The sexes are superficially identical.
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Prey / Diet

Kigelia africana (sausage tree)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0