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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 » Paonias » Blinded Sphinx - Hodges#7824 (Paonias excaecata)
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Blinded sphinx larva ? - Paonias excaecata
Copyright © 2014 Christine Hanrahan

Blinded sphinx larva ? - Paonias excaecata
Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada
August 17, 2014

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Blinded sphinx larva ? - Paonias excaecata Blinded sphinx larva ? - Paonias excaecata Blinded sphinx larva ? - Paonias excaecata
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Contributed by Christine Hanrahan on 17 August, 2014 - 4:16pm
Last updated 25 November, 2015 - 5:42pm

Moved
Moved from Sphinx Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 25 November, 2015 - 5:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 23 August, 2014 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

Looks like it to me....
Looks like one to me. The dec=scription pretty well matches what you photographed. It also looks like the one picture here (minus the red spots that occasionally are present):
http://bugguide.net/node/view/448145
However I would wait for someone more experienced to verify.
… K Brumback, 17 August, 2014 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
for your comment and link. It was the lack of red spots on the one I saw that made me wonder about ID.
… Christine Hanrahan, 17 August, 2014 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

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