Nephele comma

{{Short description|Species of moth}}

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| name = Comma nephele hawk moth

| image = Nephele comma, mannetjie, Pretoria, a.jpg

| image2 = Nephele_comma.JPG

| taxon = Nephele comma

| authority = Hopffer, 1857{{cite web|url=http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Nephele/leighi.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013102015/http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Nephele/leighi.html|archivedate=2012-10-13|url-status=dead |title=CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae |publisher=Cate-sphingidae.org |accessdate=2011-10-25}}

| synonyms =

  • Nephele triangulifera Closs, 1914
  • Nephele charoba Kirby, 1877
  • Nephele charoba microstigma (Clark, 1927)
  • Nephele comma derasa Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

}}

Nephele comma is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is very common throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar.{{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 |doi=10.5962/p.238439 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library|doi-access=free }}

Food plants

The larvae feed on the leaves of Carissa species.

References