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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 » Lapara » Northern Pine Sphinx - Hodges#7817 (Lapara bombycoides)
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Larva - Lapara bombycoides
Copyright © 2015 Nelson DeBarros

Larva - Lapara bombycoides
Voluntown, New London County, Connecticut, USA
September 20, 2014
Observed in area dominated by Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) and dry sandplain vegetation- adjacent to Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) wetland.
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Contributed by Nelson DeBarros on 23 January, 2015 - 9:55am
Last updated 23 January, 2015 - 12:35pm

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Probably L. bombycoides and not L. coniferarum based on location and association with white pine. Had pitch pine been reported at this location I would be less sure about my determination without seeing a lateral or central view of this specimen.
… Ryan St Laurent, 23 January, 2015 - 12:35pm login or register to post comments

maybe Lapara
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