Polyptychopsis

Polyptychopsis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. It contains only one species, Polyptychopsis marshalli, which is known from Brachystegia woodland in large parts of Africa.^[2]

Polyptychopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Tribe:	Smerinthini
Genus:	Polyptychopsis Carcasson, 1968
Species:	P. marshalli
Binomial name
Polyptychopsis marshalli (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1]
Synonyms
Polyptychus marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Polyptychus auriguttatus Gehlen, 1934 Polyptychus marshalli meridianus Kernbach, 1963

The wingspan is 53–58 mm.

Subspecies

• Polyptychopsis marshalli marshalli (Zimbabwe to Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania)
• Polyptychopsis marshalli auriguttatus (Gehlen, 1934) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Tanzania and probably eastern Angola)
• Polyptychopsis marshalli meridianus (Kernbach, 1963) (Zimbabwe)