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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) » Sphinginae » Sphingini » Lapara » Northern Pine Sphinx - Hodges#7817 (Lapara bombycoides)
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Sphinx moth - Lapara bombycoides
Copyright © 2013 Betsy Higgins

Sphinx moth - Lapara bombycoides
Florence, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
May 20, 2013
This looks like the images of Lapara coniferarum more than Lapara bombycoides on MPG. Is there a way to tell? coniferarum is recorded in MA but bombycoides is more common. Help?
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Contributed by Betsy Higgins on 24 May, 2013 - 8:56pm
Last updated 21 July, 2013 - 4:20pm

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Moved from Moths.

Both Lapara species are found in MA, but I would imagine that L. coniferarum is more restricted to southeastern portions of the state where Pinus rigida outnumbers P. strobus as L. coniferarum is primarily a pitch pine feeder in New England while L. bombycoides is more associated with white pine woods, at least as per my experience in southern Rhode Island.
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