Polyptychus affinis

Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is known at elevations up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.^[1]

Polyptychus affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Polyptychus
Species:	P. affinis
Binomial name
Polyptychus affinis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Synonyms
Polyptychus retusus Rothschild & Jordan, 1908 Polyptychus pierrei Kitching & Cadiou, 2000 Polyptychus modestum Bernardi, 1970

The larvae feed on Detarium senegalense and Albizia species.^[2]

Taxonomy

Polyptychus retusus is sometimes treated as a valid species.^[3]