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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Bombycoidea » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae) » Smerinthinae » Smerinthini » Paonias » Blinded Sphinx - Hodges#7824 (Paonias excaecatus)
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Blinded Sphinx - Paonias excaecatus
Copyright © 2007 Pamela Brearley

Blinded Sphinx - Paonias excaecatus
Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana, USA
July 9, 2007
Size: 3-4 inches
found this large brown moth on my garage bricks last night at 7 pm. we live in the woods. first i thought it was some crinkled leaves.
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Contributed by Pamela Brearley on 10 July, 2007 - 6:36pm
Last updated 20 May, 2008 - 2:04pm

nice image
looks to me like the Blinded Sphinx Moth (Paonias excaecatus)
Compare:
… David Kleiman, 10 July, 2007 - 6:49pm login or register to post comments

Blinded sphinx moth.
A common, but spectacular species.
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 July, 2007 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

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