Pseudandriasa

Pseudandriasa is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae erected by Robert Herbert Carcasson in 1968. Its only species, Pseudandriasa mutata, described by Francis Walker in 1855, is known from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[2]

Pseudandriasa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Smerinthini
Genus: Pseudandriasa
Carcasson, 1968
Species:
P. mutata
Binomial name
Pseudandriasa mutata
(Walker, 1855)[1]
Synonyms
  • Andriasa erubescens Walker, 1862
  • Lymantria mutata Walker, 1855

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.
  • Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Pseudandriasa Carcasson, 1968". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved December 6, 2018.


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