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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) » Macroglossinae » Macroglossini » Xylophanes » Tersa Sphinx - Hodges#7890 (Xylophanes tersa)
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Tersa Sphinx - Xylophanes tersa
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Elliott

Tersa Sphinx - Xylophanes tersa
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
September 18, 2005
We found this Tersa Sphinx caterpillar on the lawn...probably eating that lawn weed, Virginia buttonweed. We put it in a butterfly container with a bunch of buttonweed. After 1 day it had taken all the buttonweed and made some sort of shelter with it. The bottonweed is now firmly fastened to the bottom of the butterfly container with the caterpillar under it. I assume it is pupating.
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 20 September, 2005 - 5:56pm
Last updated 14 August, 2014 - 7:38am

Virginia Buttonweed
Various species of Diodia (Virginia Buttonweed is Diodia virginianus) are listed as food plants for the Tersa Sphinx, so I'm sure that's what it was eating
… Chuck Entz, 20 September, 2005 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

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