Temnora livida

Species of moth

Temnora livida

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Sphingidae
Genus:  | Temnora
Species:  |

T. livida

Binomial name
Temnora livida

Holland, 1889[1]

Synonyms

* Chaerocampa livida Holland, 1889

Temnora livida is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from the Gambia to Congo and Uganda.[2]

The length of the forewings is 29–34 mm, making it the largest species of the genus Temnora. The head and body are grey, with a dark median line running from the vertex to the base of the abdomen. The forewings are grey with numerous indistinct crenulate dark lines. There is a darker area at the costa near the apex and a squarish dark spot at the inner margin before the tornus. There is also a large, diffuse darker area beyond the middle of the costa. The hindwings are uniformly dark blackish grey with a pale grey spot at the tornus. The abdominal tufts are light red.

## References

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1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2011-10-25. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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.

Taxon identifiers

Temnora livida|

* Wikidata: Q1980359
* AfroMoths: TEMNLIVI
* BioLib: 651715
* BOLD: 75798
* CoL: 7BPJY
* EoL: 504039
* GBIF: 1863561
* IRMNG: 11151168
* LepIndex: 56049
* NCBI: 1088255
* Open Tree of Life: 3094082

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