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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 » Dilophonotini » Erinnyis » Ello Sphinx - Hodges#7834 (Erinnyis ello)
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Green, Horned caterpillar with eye spot. ID help please - Erinnyis ello
Copyright © 2011 Roger Cornelius

Green, Horned caterpillar with eye spot. ID help please - Erinnyis ello
Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, USA
October 7, 2011
Size: Approx. two inches long
See all three images. Specimen was feeding on Painted Leaf plant. Possibly some variety of sphynx moth? I found a very similar specimen online, but it didn't have the tail horn. Help please.

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Green, Horned caterpillar with eye spot. ID help please - Erinnyis ello Green, Horned caterpillar with eye spot. ID help please - Erinnyis ello Green, Horned caterpillar with eye spot. ID help please - Erinnyis ello
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Contributed by Roger Cornelius on 9 October, 2011 - 2:29pm
Last updated 14 October, 2011 - 3:00pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 14 October, 2011 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

Some species in the genus Erinnyis, possibly an
Ello Sphinx (Erinnyis ello)
… Alex Harman, 9 October, 2011 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

 
possible Ello Sphynx caterpillar
Thanks. Ello Sphynx is the similar specimen I found online (seen here), but Ello Sphynx doesn't seem to have the tail horn. Would something as distinctive as a horn vary between individuals in a species?
… Roger Cornelius, 9 October, 2011 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

 
I think that as the caterpillar grows,
the horn shrinks. It is likely that yours is a younger caterpillar so it still has a long horn.
… Alex Harman, 9 October, 2011 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

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