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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) » Smerinthinae » Smerinthini » Amorpha » Walnut Sphinx - Hodges#7827 (Amorpha juglandis)
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Darapsa choerilus, Azalea Sphinx, Hodges # 7886 ? - Amorpha juglandis - male
Copyright © 2013 A. Hendrickson

Darapsa choerilus, Azalea Sphinx, Hodges # 7886 ? - Amorpha juglandis - Male
Schulenburg, Fayette County, Texas, USA
June 9, 2012
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Contributed by A. Hendrickson on 11 January, 2013 - 7:32pm
Last updated 5 May, 2018 - 10:32am

Moved- Not Darapsa
Moved from ID Request.

This is a walnut sphinx (Amorpha juglandis).
… Ryan St Laurent, 11 January, 2013 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

 
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What a surprise and how you can be fooled by area! I have loads of these in Camp Wood and do not know of ANY walnut trees in the area at Schulenburg.

Thanks for straightening me out.
… A. Hendrickson, 11 January, 2013 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Walnut sphinx
Despite its name; the walnut sphinx is known to feed on other trees as well: beech, hickory, alder, hazlenut among some others.
… Ryan St Laurent, 12 January, 2013 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

 
Wanut Spinx
Thanks for the explanation.
… A. Hendrickson, 12 January, 2013 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

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