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Pine Sphinx - Lapara bombycoides
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Pine Sphinx - Lapara bombycoides
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 4, 2009

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Contributed by tom murray on 4 September, 2009 - 9:01pm
Last updated 27 August, 2012 - 4:39pm

Moved
Moved from Lapara.
Comment by Ryan here says that the southern Pine Sphinx has orange true legs. This one has green legs.
Plus Northern Pine Sphinx is very common at the lights here, and I've only ever seen a single southern Pine Sphinx at my lights.
… tom murray, 27 August, 2012 - 4:39pm

Moved
Moved from Pine Sphinx. In the range overlap these are not possible to tell apart
… John R. Maxwell, 10 October, 2009 - 7:21am

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