Anambulyx | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Tribe: | Smerinthini |
Genus: | Anambulyx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 |
Species: | A. elwesi
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Binomial name | |
Anambulyx elwesi | |
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Anambulyx is a type of moth genus. It is in the family of Sphingidae. The genus was documented by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It only has one only species, the Anambulyx elwesi, or Elwes' pink-and-green hawkmoth. was first described by Herbert Druce in 1882.
It is from northern Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, south-western China, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam.[2]