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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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Caterpillar - Lapara bombycoides
Copyright © 2017 Stephen Luk

Caterpillar - Lapara bombycoides
Pine Lake, Gravenhurst, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada
August 27, 2017
Size: 25 mm
Host unknown, but it may have fallen out of a White Pine directly above.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 10 September, 2017 - 7:14pm
Last updated 10 September, 2017 - 10:36pm

Sphinx du pin
En français.
… Ilze V-G., 7 August, 2020 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

John and Jane, thanks for solving this one.
Moved from Owlet Moths and kin.
… Stephen Luk, 10 September, 2017 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

Pine Sphinx
That far north we would expect it is
… john and jane balaban, 10 September, 2017 - 8:45pm login or register to post comments

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