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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 » Macroglossini » Deilephila » Elephant Hawk Moth - Hodges#7894.1 (Deilephila elpenor)
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Light trap set up - Deilephila elpenor
Copyright © 2014 Sung.Jo

Light trap set up - Deilephila elpenor
Maple Rige, British Columbia, Canada
June 4, 2014
Size: 4cm
About 20-30 of them came to the trap between 11pm-12am

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Contributed by Sung.Jo on 12 June, 2014 - 9:45am
Last updated 12 June, 2014 - 5:04pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Yup - not ugly for an introduced moth! I unlinked all your images because linking is reserved for only images of the exact same specimen.
… Chris Grinter, 12 June, 2014 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

this is
Deilephila elpenor an introduced species.
… Edna Woodward, 12 June, 2014 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

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