Nephele lannini

Description

Nephele lannini is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from highland forests in Zimbabwe, Malawi and southern Tanzania. The length of the forewings is 31–33 mm. The head, thorax and forewings are very dark olive brown. The abdomen has all segments marked with black, the black lateral spots are almost meeting on the dorsum, where they are separated by a small dark olive spot, and separated longitudinally by almost uninterrupted pale buffish brown transverse stripes at the posterior margin of each tergite. The forewings are very broad and rounded and the apex is acute and very slightly falcate, mottled with blackish and with a faint diffuse black bar running from the middle of the costa to the tornus. There is a conspicuous irregular, interrupted submarginal pale grey line, edged proximally with black. The hindwings are uniformly dark brown.