Temnora sardanus

Species of moth

Temnora sardanus

T. s. sardanus, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Sphingidae
Genus:  | Temnora
Species:  |

T. sardanus

Binomial name
Temnora sardanus

(Walker, 1856)[1]

Synonyms

* Enyo sardanus Walker, 1856
* Diodosida uniformis Rothschild, 1894

Temnora sardanus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests and heavy woodland from Sierra Leone to Congo and Angola, then to Zimbabwe and East Africa.[2]

The length of the forewings is 19–21 mm for males and 23–25 mm for females.

## Subspecies

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* Temnora sardanus sardanus
* Temnora sardanus canui Darge, 1991 (São Tomé & Princípe)
* Temnora sardanus hirsutus Darge, 2004 (Tanzania)

## References

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1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
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 sardanus|

* Wikidata: Q4991281
* Wikispecies: Temnora sardanus
* AfroMoths: TEMNSARD
* BioLib: 651736
* BOLD: 74715
* CoL: 7BPB6
* EoL: 405767
* GBIF: 1863490
* iNaturalist: 697017
* IRMNG: 11324473
* LepIndex: 56089
* NCBI: 1088271
* Open Tree of Life: 3093737

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