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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae) » Macroglossinae » Dilophonotini » Hemaris » Snowberry Clearwing - Hodges#7855 (Hemaris diffinis)
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Hemaris diffinis caterpillar, Leptoglossus phyllopus nymph - Hemaris diffinis
Copyright © 2007 John Cowsar Jr

Hemaris diffinis caterpillar, Leptoglossus phyllopus nymph - Hemaris diffinis
Garden Ridge/San Antonio, Comal County, Texas, USA
June 8, 2007
I believe the nymph to be Leptoglossus phyllopus, Leaf-footed bug, since all the adults on the same bush are the same species (have the horizontal white stripe dorsally). The nymph has the same color of antenna. I think the caterpillar is Hemaris diffinis on the host plant, Coral honeysuckle. Please correct this novice if I am wrong.

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Contributed by John Cowsar Jr on 8 July, 2007 - 9:42pm
Last updated 31 August, 2017 - 1:39am

Moved
Moved from Sphinx Moths.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 4 October, 2007 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

 
oops
- nevermind, I was preoccupied with the nymph, but now I see the caterpillar was the reason this image was under the sphinx moth section!
… joot, 18 July, 2008 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

I would say this is an Acanthocephala nymph
that blue-black color and spiky edge to the abdomen are typical. They are also more solitary than Leptoglossus, and wander more freely.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 4 October, 2007 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

Snowberry
You have the caterpillar right. What a great photo!
… Bobby Grizzard, 9 July, 2007 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

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