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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) » Sphinginae » Sphingini » Ceratomia » Waved Sphinx - Hodges#7787 (Ceratomia undulosa)
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anyone know what this caterpillar is? Host plant info would help too. - Ceratomia undulosa
Copyright © 2006 DeniseD

anyone know what this caterpillar is? Host plant info would help too. - Ceratomia undulosa
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
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Contributed by DeniseD on 3 July, 2006 - 5:29pm
Last updated 20 July, 2008 - 9:15pm

Moved
Moved from Sphinx Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 20 July, 2008 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 5 November, 2006 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

Great Ash Sphinx Sphinx chersis
In Wagner's book, he says "Large greenish or pinkish caterpillar with seven oblique abdominal lines that may be upwardly edged with pink...and a pink or blue tail." So, I think this may be the Great Ash Sphnix. Host plants are ash (Fraxinus), privet hedges and lilac (both not native).
… Jackie, 4 July, 2006 - 8:47am login or register to post comments

This is interesting!
You would think that a sphinx caterpillar so well marked would be easy to identify. The closest we've found so far is the Waved Sphinx, Ceratomia undulosa, but it doesn't look quite right. We'll keep looking. Here's one in the guide at
… john and jane balaban, 3 July, 2006 - 9:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, this gives me some
Thank you, this gives me somewhere to start.
… DeniseD, 4 July, 2006 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

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