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Polyptychus carteri

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Species of moth

Polyptychus carteri

Polyptychus carteri, adult
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Polyptychus
Species:	P. carteri
Binomial name
*Polyptychus carteri* (Butler, 1852)
Synonyms
Pseudosmerinthus carteri Butler, 1852 Polyptychus poliadles Rothschild & Jordan, 1906

Polyptychus carteri is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo and Uganda.

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.

Taxon identifiers
Polyptychus carteri	Wikidata: Q1382738 Wikispecies: Polyptychus carteri AfroMoths: POLYCART BioLib: 648311 BOLD: 77641 CoL: 4LKTM EoL: 509760 GBIF: 5123742 iNaturalist: 684740 IRMNG: 10322812 LepIndex: 54487 NCBI: 1087708 Open Tree of Life: 890438

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