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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Bombycoidea » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae) » Macroglossinae » Macroglossini » Eumorpha » Banded Sphinx - Hodges#7865 (Eumorpha fasciatus)
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Banded Sphinx caterpillar - Eumorpha fasciatus
Copyright © 2002 Cotinis

Banded Sphinx caterpillar - Eumorpha fasciatus
Wake County, North Carolina, USA
September 27, 2002
Thanks to all who helped on this sphinx--see comments. It was feeding on Knotweed, Polygonum in a wetland area.
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Contributed by Cotinis on 9 August, 2004 - 11:25pm
Last updated 6 August, 2009 - 5:51pm

definitely isn't Pandorus
Markings are quite different. Usual host plants for E. fasciatus are in the Onagraceae (Primrose Family), so this one is still perhaps a bit "off" in its choices.

Moved from Pandorus Sphinx.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 August, 2009 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

Eumorpha pandorus
There's a third instar on this page that looks even more like yours
Bill Oehlke
… john and jane balaban, 22 August, 2004 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, looks like Eumorpha pandorus
Ah thanks. I've seen a later instar--I did not know the early instars were so different.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 23 August, 2004 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

Realtive?
It appears to be relative to the green horned worm (aka tomato/tobacco worm)
… kilohoku, 13 August, 2004 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

Eumorpha achemon ?
It looks like Eumorpha achemon, but I thought that fed on grape, virginia creeper and other vines.
http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/ndmoths/names/7861.htm
… john and jane balaban, 9 August, 2004 - 11:54pm login or register to post comments

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