Leucophlebia afra
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| genus = Leucophlebia
| species = afra
| authority = Karsch, 1891{{cite web |url=https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Leucophlebia/afra.html |title=CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae |publisher=Cate-sphingidae.org |accessdate=2011-11-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121228221331/https://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Leucophlebia/afra.html |archivedate=2012-12-28}}
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Leucophlebia afra is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Senegal to northern Uganda and Sudan in the east, and to Angola in the west.{{cite journal |last=Carcasson |first=R. H. |author-link=Robert Herbert Carcasson |date=1967 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51111621#page/279/mode/1up |title=Revised Catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with Descriptions of the East African species |journal=Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=1–173 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
The length of the forewings is 20–25 mm for males and up to 30 mm for females.
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Category:Moths described in 1891
Category:Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Lepidoptera of West Africa
Category:Lepidoptera of Uganda
Category:Lepidoptera of Malawi
Category:Lepidoptera of Tanzania
Category:Lepidoptera of Zambia
Category:Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
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