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Species Erinnyis obscura - Obscure Sphinx - Hodges#7837

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Bombycoidea
Family Sphingidae (Sphinx Moths)
Subfamily Macroglossinae
Tribe Dilophonotini
Genus Erinnyis
Species obscura (Obscure Sphinx - Hodges#7837)
Hodges Number
7837
Size
2 3/16 - 2 9/16 inches (5.6 - 6.5 cm) wingspan. (2)
Identification
This small species can always be distinguished from E. ello, which it resembles in having dark longitudinal shade through the fore wings, by its much smaller size, and by the absence of the white and black lateral stripes upon the abdomen.(1)
Range
It is common in Florida.(1)
Tropical; Florida to Texas, rare in La. and Miss. Strays north to Pa. Ky. and Neb. August-September.(2)
Season
all year in south
Food
Cynanchum, papaya, and white vine.
Print References
Holland (1)
Covell (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.
Moth Photographers Group - photographs of related living adults.
Moth Photographers Group - photographs of pinned related species.
NABA South Texas - species account South Texas.
Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photograph of pinned male adult and lists larval foodplants utilized in Arizona.
silkmoths.bizland - photographs of larvae, living and pinned adults. Species life history and range.
Works Cited
1.The Moth Book
By W. J. Holland
2.Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America
By Charles V. Covell, Jr.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 1 November, 2004 - 5:22pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Matthew Roth, Maury Heiman
Last updated 28 August, 2009 - 12:06am

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