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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 » Paonias » Blinded Sphinx - Hodges#7824 (Paonias excaecata)

Species Paonias excaecata - Blinded Sphinx - Hodges#7824

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae)

Brief observations of Sphingidae flight time

By Vernon Antoine Brou Jr.
Southern Lepidopterists' News, 24: 26-27, 2002

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 November, 2013 - 9:23am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae)

Hawkmoths of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Revisionary Checklist (Lepidoptera Sphingidae)

By Ian J. Kitching; Jean-Marie Cadiou
Comstock Publishing Associates , 2000

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 February, 2013 - 4:21pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae)

The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 21 Sphingidae

By Ronald W. Hodges
The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 1971

The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 21 Sphingidae

Wedge Entomological Research Foundation

Bio Quip

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 February, 2011 - 12:34am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae)

The Hawk Moths of North America, A Natural History Study of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada.

By James P Tuttle
The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation Inc., 2007

This book is not out yet but pre-orders are being taken now.

Pre-orders here:http://www.wedgefoundation.org/HawkMoths.pdf

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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 21 August, 2007 - 8:39am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea)

A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

By Kitching, I., R. Rougerie, A. Zwick, C. Hamilton, R. St Laurent, S. Naumann, L. Ballesteros Mejia, A. Kawahara
Biodiversity Data Journal, 6: e22236., 2018

Kitching, I., R. Rougerie, A. Zwick, C. Hamilton, R. St Laurent, S. Naumann, L. Ballesteros Mejia, A. Kawahara, 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal, 6: e22236.

View paper at pensoft.net here. Scroll to bottom for link to excel spreadsheet.

cite:1577884

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 19 August, 2018 - 5:55am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea)

Bombycine moths of America north of Mexico, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature.

By Alpheus S. Packard
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 7: 5-390, 1895

Packard, A.S., 1895. Bombycine moths of America north of Mexico, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 7: 5-390.

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 5 May, 2013 - 1:32pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

Descriptions of Some New Moths from Southern California

By Harrison G. Dyar
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 10: 52–60, 1908

Available online

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Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 29 April, 2023 - 10:08pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

Hadenine Notes and Descriptions (Phalaenidae, Leipidoptera)

By McDunnough, J.
The Canadian Entomologist, Volume 75, Issue 3, March, pp. 43-57, 1943

Available online from Cambridge University Press at this link.

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Contributed by Steve Morris on 30 January, 2023 - 11:34am

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