Rhadinopasa

Rhadinopasa
Rhadinopasa hornimani hornimani
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Tribe:	Smerinthini
Genus:	Rhadinopasa Karsch, 1891
Species:	R. hornimani
Binomial name
Rhadinopasa hornimani (H. Druce, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
Basiana hornimani H. Druce, 1880 Rhadinopasa udei Karsch, 1891

Rhadinopasa is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Ferdinand Karsch in 1891. Its only species, Rhadinopasa hornimani, was first described by Herbert Druce in 1880. It is known from lowland forest from Gabon, Cameroon and the Central African Republic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda and Tanzania.^[2]

Species

• Rhadinopasa hornimani hornimani
• Rhadinopasa hornimani tanganyikae Clark, 1938 (Tanzania)

References

1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
2. 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.

• Mackey, A. P. (1978). "The Biogeographic Relationships of the New Guinea Sphingidae (Lepidoptera)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 16 (4): 361–365. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1977.tb00119.x. ISSN 1326-6756.