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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 » Amorpha » Walnut Sphinx - Hodges#7827 (Amorpha juglandis)
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Mystery moth - Amorpha juglandis
Copyright © 2010 Tzila "Z" Duenzl

Mystery moth - Amorpha juglandis
Horseshoe Bend, Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, USA
August 5, 2010
I would appreciate all help to ID this lovely moth. I also wonder that its abdomen is so large...would it be a female full of eggs; or just out of a cocoon; or just large?
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Contributed by Tzila "Z" Duenzl on 5 August, 2010 - 10:24pm
Last updated 1 September, 2010 - 6:11pm

Moved
Moved from Sphinx Moths.

Candice has the id correct. 7827 - Amorpha juglandis - Walnut Sphinx.
Can you crop the photo to show less of the human please? :-)
Very nicely marked moth!
… Maury J. Heiman, 1 September, 2010 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Is it not ok...
...to show 'human' in the pics?
… Tzila "Z" Duenzl, 1 September, 2010 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Whether the extra in the image is "human" or not
is not really the issue. The instructions for submission of images asks "Crop your image so the bug fills the frame." So it's not that there is human in the image, it's just that there is non-bug in the image.
… john and jane balaban, 1 September, 2010 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… john and jane balaban, 12 August, 2010 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

This looks like a female (the
This looks like a female (the large abdomen) Walnut Sphinx moth - Amorpha juglandis.
Quite possibly she's got eggs in there too!

info: http://bugguide.net/node/view/4144
… CandiceTalbot, 6 August, 2010 - 2:50am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you....
...it does look like that. Thanks.
… Tzila "Z" Duenzl, 6 August, 2010 - 7:39am login or register to post comments

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