moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family Sphingidae first described by Patrick Basquin in 1992. It occurs on São Tomé Island. The type locality is
Bombaim
Bombaim is a small village on São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. Its population is 18 (2012 census).''Theretra viridis'' Basquin, 1992 AfroMoths, an online database of Afrotropical moth species
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 40 mm. The forewing upperside ground colour is dark green. The fifth postmedian line is strongly developed and dentate on the veins, each vein highlighted by a short pale streak immediately basal to the line.