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词条 Nephele peneus
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{{Taxobox
| image = Nephele peneus.JPG
| image_caption =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Sphingidae
| genus = Nephele
| species = N. peneus
| binomial = Nephele peneus
| binomial_authority = (Cramer, 1776)[1]
| synonyms =
  • Sphinx peneus Cramer, 1776
  • Nephele pachyderma Karsch, 1892
  • Nephele peneus innotata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)

}}Nephele peneus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests and woodland from Senegal to East Africa, Angola and Delagoa Bay.[2]

The length of the forewings is 33–40 mm. All abdominal segments are marked with broad blackish spots separated by a pale brownish buff band at the posterior margin. The olive dorsal spots are rather wide. The forewings are broad, with an evenly rounded termen. They are olive grey, banded and mottled with blackish and sometimes ochreous. The submarginal band is very irregular and indistinct. The silvery white stigma consists of a small anterior

comma and of a wide angled V shape. In some specimens, the arms of the V do not meet at the apex and the stigma then consists of three spots. Occasional specimens without the stigma are referable to form innotata.

The larvae feed on an unidentified Asclepiadoideae creeper. They have an olive coloured head with a darker line on each cheek with a paler one behind it. The body is olive-green. The pupa is made in a slight cocoon in surface litter. It is dark dull chestnut, with a blackish dorsal line.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Nephele/peneus.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014041821/http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Nephele/peneus.html|archivedate=2012-10-14|deadurl=yes |title=CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae |publisher=Cate-sphingidae.org |accessdate=2011-10-25}}
2. ^{{cite journal |last=Carcasson |first=R. H. |author-link=Robert Herbert Carcasson |date=1967 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51111621#page/279/mode/1up |title=Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species |journal=Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=1–173 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
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