HOLOTYPE ♂ Gold Coast [Ghana]: Gambaga (Bury) [NHMUK]. Proposed as a subspecies of Leucophlebia afra.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 49. Treated as a subspecies of Leucophlebia afra by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World: VIII.12. Resynonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 53. Reinstated as a species by Eitschberger, 2003, Neue ent. Nachr. 56: 37.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
