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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 » Pachysphinx » Modest Sphinx - Hodges#7828 (Pachysphinx modesta)
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modesta or occidentalis? - Pachysphinx modesta - female
Copyright © 2008 Kadyn Ward

modesta or occidentalis? - Pachysphinx modesta - Female
Palisades reservoire, Idaho, USA
August 2, 2006
I havent been able to identify whether this is P. occidentalis or P. modesta. I decided eventually that modesta seemed most likely, but can anyone confirm?
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Contributed by Kadyn Ward on 9 August, 2008 - 9:34pm
Last updated 20 July, 2012 - 11:26pm

yes, it looks like P. modesta
Though I have a hunch (maybe way off) that the two "species" may intergrade in Idaho and south through the Rockies where they meet.

Moved from Pachysphinx.
… David J. Ferguson, 20 July, 2012 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

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