''Sphingonaepiopsis kuldjaensis'', the Kuldja hawkmoth, is a
moth of the family
Sphingidae. The species was
first described by
Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser
Ludwig Carl Friedrich (Louis) Graeser (12 February 1840, in Dresden – 9 December 1913, in Hamburg) was a German entomologist who specialised in Palearctic Lepidoptera. He was a bookbinder.
His collections are in the Zoological Museum of the ...
in 1892. It is found in eastern
Kazakhstan, western
Xinjiang province in China, eastern
Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan,
Kyrgyzstan and eastern
Afghanistan.
The
wingspan is 30–34 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing from late April to early July, and again as a partial second generation from early July to late August.
The larvae feed on flower buds and young leaves of ''
Galium'' species.
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Sphingonaepiopsis
Moths described in 1892
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser
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