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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Royal Moths (Ceratocampinae) » Syssphinx » Hubbard's Small Silkmoth - Hodges#7711 (Syssphinx hubbardi)
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One day old pupa - Syssphinx hubbardi
Copyright © 2010 cwmelton

One day old pupa - Syssphinx hubbardi
Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
October 24, 2009
One day old pupa. After drying and hardening the pupa darkened. The adult will emerge next year during the summer monsoons, typically late July through August.
A clutch of eggs was obtained from a wild female and reared indoors on mesquite leaves, Prosopis velutina. Photographs that were not positively of the same individual were not linked.

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Contributed by cwmelton on 26 September, 2010 - 12:29am
Last updated 26 September, 2010 - 9:35am

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