Sphingidae species list
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This list is the world-spanning species list for the Family Sphingidae
Sphingidae
Sphingidae is a family of moths , commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths and hornworms, that includes about 1,200 species . It is best represented in the tropics but there are species in every region . They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their rapid,...

 of moths (Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

), commonly known as Hawk-Moths. This list contains all known species of Sphingidae in order of subfamily. There should be about 1,288 species listed. There are three subfamilies:
  1. Subfamily Macroglossinae
    Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)
    The Macroglossinae are a sub-family of Sphingidae moths in the order Lepidoptera. The subfamily is divided into three tribes: Dilophonotini, Macroglossini and Philampelini.-References:*, All-Leps Barcode of Life...

  2. Subfamily Smerinthinae
    Smerinthinae
    The Smerinthinae are a sub-family of Sphingidae moths in the order Lepidoptera.-Smerinthinae Taxonomy:*Tribe Ambulycini*Tribe Smerinthini*Tribe Sphingulini- References :*, All-Leps Barcode of Life...

  3. Subfamily Sphinginae
    Sphinginae
    The Sphinginae are a subfamily of the hawkmoths , moths of the order Lepidoptera. Notable taxa include the Pink-Spotted Hawkmoth, Agrius cingulata, being a very common and recognizable species, the death's-head hawkmoths of Silence of the Lambs fame, and Xanthopan morgani with its enormous...



The species list is given below.

Genus Acosmeryx
Acosmeryx
Acosmeryx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Acosmeryx anceus - *Acosmeryx beatae - Cadiou, 2005*Acosmeryx castanea - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Acosmeryx formosana -...

  • Acosmeryx anceus
    Acosmeryx anceus
    Acosmeryx anceus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Stoll in 1781, and is known from India, New Guinea, and Queensland, Australia.The wingspan is 70-88 mm....

  • Acosmeryx castanea
    Acosmeryx castanea
    Acosmeryx castanea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan in 1903, and is known from eastern and southern China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan....

  • Acosmeryx formosana
    Acosmeryx formosana
    Acosmeryx formosana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Matsumura in 1927. It is endemic to Taiwan.The wingspan is 67-73 mm....

  • Acosmeryx hoenei
  • Acosmeryx miskini
    Acosmeryx miskini
    Acosmeryx miskini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Murray in 1873, and is known from New Guinea to north-eastern Australia....

  • Acosmeryx naga
    Acosmeryx naga
    Acosmeryx naga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Moore in 1858, and is known from Japan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China and south-east Asia....

  • Acosmeryx omissa
    Acosmeryx omissa
    Acosmeryx omissa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan in 1903. It is known from south-east Asia, including Thailand....

  • Acosmeryx pseudomissa
    Acosmeryx pseudomissa
    Acosmeryx pseudomissa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Mell in 1922. It is known from Thailand, southern China and Vietnam.The larvae feed on Actinidia species....

  • Acosmeryx rebeccae
  • Acosmeryx sericeus
    Acosmeryx sericeus
    Acosmeryx sericeus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Walker in 1856, and is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, Bangladesh, Thailand, southern China, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia....

  • Acosmeryx shervillii
    Acosmeryx shervillii
    Acosmeryx shervillii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sundaland, the Philippines and Sulawesi. Acosmeryx pseudonaga is sometimes treated as a valid species....

  • Acosmeryx sinjaevi
    Acosmeryx sinjaevi
    Acosmeryx sinjaevi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Brechlin and Kitching in 1996, and is known from northern Vietnam and Hainan and Fujian, China....

  • Acosmeryx socrates
    Acosmeryx socrates
    Acosmeryx socrates is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Acosmeryx yunnanfuana

Genus Aellopos
Aellopos
Aellopos is an extinct genus of ray.-References:*Solnhofen ; a study in Mesozoic palaeontology. K. Werner Barthel, Nicola Helga Margaret Swinburne, Simon Conway Morris. p.165...

  • Aellopos ceculus
    Aellopos ceculus
    Aellopos ceculus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives mainly in the northern section of South America but has known to be found as far north as Mexico....

  • Aellopos blaini
    Aellopos blaini
    Abagrotis blaini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.It can be distinguished from all other Aellopos species with an entirely black hindwing upperside by the lack of a transverse white band on abdominal tergite four. The hindwing upperside is...

  • Aellopos ceculus
    Aellopos ceculus
    Aellopos ceculus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives mainly in the northern section of South America but has known to be found as far north as Mexico....

  • Aellopos clavipes
    Aellopos clavipes
    Aellopos clavipes, also known as the Clavipes Sphinx, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives mainly in Central America but ranges from Venezuela to California, Arizona, and Texas in the United States....

  • Aellopos fadus
    Aellopos fadus
    The Fadus Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives in Central America and the northern part of South America.The wingspan is 57-60 mm. The body is brown with a wide white band across the abdomen. The upperside of the wings is dark brown and the forewing has two bands of pale spots and...

  • Aellopos tantalus
    Aellopos tantalus
    Aellopos tantalus, known as the Tantalus Sphinx, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Florida, the Antilles, from Mexico to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Surinam, and in the Amazons....

  • Aellopos titan
    Aellopos titan
    The Titan Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It has been found all the way from Maine in the United States through Central America and south to Argentina and Uruguay in South America....


Genus Aleuron
Aleuron
Aleuron is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Aleuron carinata - *Aleuron chloroptera - *Aleuron cymographum - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Aleuron iphis -...

  • Aleuron carinata
    Aleuron carinata
    Aleuron carinata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Walker in 1856, and is known from southern Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Belize and Ecuador.The wingspan is 62-86 mm...

  • Aleuron chloroptera
    Aleuron chloroptera
    Aleuron chloroptera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Perty in 1833, and is known from southern Mexico, Brazil, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Paraguay, Argentina and Ecuador. It is probably also...

  • Aleuron cymographum
    Aleuron cymographum
    Aleuron cymographum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan in 1903, and is known from Bolivia.Adults are on wing from at least April to January....

  • Aleuron iphis
    Aleuron iphis
    Aleuron iphis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Walker in 1856, and is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica to Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil.The wingspan is 52-57 mm...

  • Aleuron neglectum
    Aleuron neglectum
    Aleuron neglectum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan in 1903. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, south through the rest of Central America and much of South America, including northern, central and southern Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia,...

  • Aleuron prominens
    Aleuron prominens
    Aleuron prominens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Walker in 1856. It is known from Brazil.There are probably multiple generations per year....

  • Aleuron ypanemae
    Aleuron ypanemae
    Aleuron ypanemae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Boisduval in 1875. It is known from Brazil.There are probably multiple generations per year....


Genus Ampelophaga
Ampelophaga
Ampelophaga is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Ampelophaga dolichoides - *Ampelophaga khasiana - Rothschild, 1895*Ampelophaga nikolae - Haxaire & Melichar, 2007...

  • Ampelophaga dolichoides
    Ampelophaga dolichoides
    Ampelophaga dolichoides is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by R. Felder in 1874. It is found from Nepal and Sikkim, north-eastern India, across Thailand and south-western China to Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia.The wingspan is 80-100 mm....

  • Ampelophaga khasiana
    Ampelophaga khasiana
    Ampelophaga khasiana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1895. It is found from Nepal, north-eastern India to central China.The wingspan is 80-102 mm....

  • Ampelophaga rubiginosa
    Ampelophaga rubiginosa
    Ampelophaga rubiginosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Bremer and Grey in 1853. It is found from north-eastern Afghanistan, east around the southern margin of the Himalaya to Yunnan, then throughout China to the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and Japan...

  • Ampelophaga thomasi
    Ampelophaga thomasi
    Ampelophaga thomasi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Kitching and Cadiou in 1998. It is known from Nepal....


Genus Angonyx
Angonyx
Angonyx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Angonyx boisduvali - Rothschild 1894*Angonyx chelsea - Eitschberger & Melichar, 2009*Angonyx excellens - *Angonyx kai - Eitschberger, 2006...

  • Angonyx boisduvali
    Angonyx boisduvali
    Angonyx boisduvali is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.The forewing upperside is similar to Angonyx papuana, but the pale grey median band posterior to the discal spot is broader, paler and gradually fading into the...

  • Angonyx excellens
  • Angonyx meeki
    Angonyx meeki
    Angonyx meeki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands.It is similar to Angonyx papuana, but distinguishable by the bright yellow coloration of the basal two-thirds of the hindwing upperside....

  • Angonyx papuana
    Angonyx papuana
    Angonyx papuana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea, northern Queensland and the Bismarck Archipelago....

  • Angonyx testacea
    Angonyx testacea
    Angonyx testacea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Nepal, northern India, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and Philippines...


Genus Antinephele
Antinephele
Antinephele is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Antinephele achlora - Holland, 1892*Antinephele anomala - *Antinephele camerunensis - Clark, 1937*Antinephele efulani - Clark, 1926...

  • Antinephele achlora
    Antinephele achlora
    Antinephele achlora is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Holland in 1892, and is found from forests from Sierra Leone to Uganda and western Kenya.The length of the forewings is 19-23 mm. The body and wings are very dark brown...

  • Antinephele anomala
    Antinephele anomala
    Antinephele anomala is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Butler in 1882, and is known from Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria. It is considered most similar to Antinephele achlora....

  • Antinephele camerunensis
  • Antinephele efulani
    Antinephele efulani
    Antinephele efulani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Clark in 1926, and is known from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Cameroon....

  • Antinephele lunulata
    Antinephele lunulata
    Antinephele lunulata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan in 1903, and is known from forests and wooded habitats from Sierra Leone to Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, as well as Madagascar.The length of the forewings...

  • Antinephele maculifera
    Antinephele maculifera
    Antinephele maculifera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Holland in 1889, and is known from Sierra Leone to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. It is also found in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. It is known from forests and wooded habitats.The length of the...

  • Antinephele marcida
    Antinephele marcida
    Antinephele marcida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Holland in 1893, and is found from forests from Cameroon to Uganda and western Kenya....

  • Antinephele muscosa
    Antinephele muscosa
    Antinephele muscosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Ghana to Gabon.The abdomen is bright blue-green dorsally. The forewing upperside is generally mid-brown and the area between the basal and antemedian bands is pale brown. The median area is usually mid-brown but sometimes pale...


Genus Basiothia
Basiothia
Basiothia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Basiothia aureata - *Basiothia charis - *Basiothia laticornis - *Basiothia medea -...

  • Basiothia aureata
    Basiothia aureata
    The Gold Dotted Temnora is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in wooded habitats from Liberia to Kenya in the east and to Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the south....

  • Basiothia charis
    Basiothia charis
    The Lesser Brown Striped Hawk is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is fairly common in most habitats, excluding very dry areas, throughout Africa south of the Sahara. It has not been recorded from Madagascar....

  • Basiothia laticornis
    Basiothia laticornis
    Basiothia laticornis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is only known from Madagascar.It is similar to Basiothia medea, but immediately distinguishable by the generally brown forewing and hindwing uppersides. The antennae are strongly clubbed in both sexes, but noticeably longer and thicker in...

  • Basiothia medea
    Basiothia medea
    The Small Verdant Hawk is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is common in open habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar. It is however probably absent from the equatorial forest belt, except as a vagrant. The species is an active migrant.The length of the forewings is 22-25...

  • Basiothia schenki
    Basiothia schenki
    The Brown Striped Hawk is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Zimbabwe and South Africa.It has a close plant-pollinator relationship with Disa cooperi, whose scent attracts only two hawkmoth species, Basiothia schenki and Agrius convolvuli, that can effectively pollinate its flower...


Genus Callionima
Callionima
Callionima is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:* Callionima acuta - * Callionima calliomenae - * Callionima denticulata -...

  • Callionima acuta
    Callionima acuta
    Callionima acuta is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from Peru and Bolivia. It was originally described by Rothschild and Jordan as Hemeroplanes acuta, in 1910....

  • Callionima calliomenae
    Callionima calliomenae
    Callionima calliomenae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.The wingspan is about 67 mm...

  • Callionima denticulata
    Callionima denticulata
    Callionima denticulata is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru and western Venezuela. It was originally described by Schaus as Calliomma denticulata, in 1895....

  • Callionima falcifera
    Callionima falcifera
    Callionima falcifera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known fromMexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Jamaica, south through northern South America ....

  • Callionima gracilis
    Callionima gracilis
    Callionima gracilis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was originally described by Jordan as Hemeroplanes gracilis, in 1923. It is endemic to Cuba.Adults are probably on wing in multiple generations...

  • Callionima grisescens
    Callionima grisescens
    Callionima grisescens is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. It was originally described by Rothschild as Calliomma grisescens, in 1894....

  • Callionima inuus
    Callionima inuus
    Callionima inuus is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama through Venezuela to Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Peru.The wingspan is 67-72 mm...

  • Callionima pan
    Callionima pan
    Callionima pan is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was originally described by Cramer in 1779. It is found from Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica through Venezuela to southern Brazil.The wingspan is about 64 mm...

  • Callionima parce
    Callionima parce
    The Parce Sphinx Moth is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from Argentina, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru to Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico to southern Florida, southern Texas, southern Arizona and southern California...

  • Callionima ramsdeni
    Callionima ramsdeni
    Callionima ramsdeni is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from Cuba. It was originally described by Clark in 1920....


Genus Cautethia
Cautethia
Cautethia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Cautethia carsusi - Haxaire & Schmit, 2001*Cautethia exuma - McCabe, 1984*Cautethia grotei - H. Edwards, 1882*Cautethia noctuiformis -...

  • Cautethia exuma
    Cautethia exuma
    Cautethia exuma is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from the Bahamas. It was described by McCabe in 1984.Moths in this species have a wingspan of 27-32 millimetres. They are immediately distinguishable from all other Cautethia species by the pale yellow-brown basal area of...

  • Cautethia grotei
    Cautethia grotei
    Cautethia grotei, commonly known as Grote's Sphinx, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It resides in Florida, United States and the Caribbean Islands.The wingspan is 28-40 mm. There are multiple generations per year in Florida...

  • Cautethia noctuiformis
    Cautethia noctuiformis
    Cautethia noctuiformis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from the Caribbean. It was described by Walker in 1856.The wingspan is 28-40 mm...

  • Cautethia simitia
    Cautethia simitia
    Cautethia simitia is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Schaus in 1932. It is known from Colombia.Adults are probably on wing in multiple generations and nectar at flowers.The larvae probably feed on Rubiaceae species....

  • Cautethia spuria
    Cautethia spuria
    The Spurious sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Mexico to Costa Rica to southern Texas and Oklahoma on the North American continent....

  • Cautethia yucatana
    Cautethia yucatana
    Cautethia yucatana is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from California and Mexico south to Central America. It was described by Clark in 1919....


Genus Cechenena
Cechenena
Cechenena is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Cechenena aegrota - *Cechenena catori - *Cechenena chimaera - *Cechenena helops -...

  • Cechenena aegrota
    Cechenena aegrota
    Cechenena aegrota is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Butler in 1875. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India , Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, southern China and Vietnam....

  • Cechenena helops
    Cechenena helops
    Cechenena helops is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Malaysia , Indonesia , the Philippines , Nepal, north-eastern India, Thailand, south-western China and Vietnam.The wingspan is 104-126 mm...

  • Cechenena lineosa
    Cechenena lineosa
    Cechenena lineosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Cechenena minor
    Cechenena minor
    Cechenena minor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern India, Nepal, Thailand, eastern and southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan and Vietnam....

  • Cechenena mirabilis
    Cechenena mirabilis
    Cechenena mirabilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Himalayas in India.It differs from all other Cechenena species by the blue-green ground colour of the forewing upperside which is overlain by a dark green basal and median pattern. There is a H-shaped patch just distal to...

  • Cechenena pollux
    Cechenena pollux
    Cechenena pollux is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia .It is similar to green forms of Cechenena lineosa but the median band of the hindwing upperside is yellow. The forewing ground colour ranges from rust-brown to green....

  • Cechenena scotti
    Cechenena scotti
    Cechenena scotti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India, Nepal and Vietnam.It is similar to Cechenena lineosa, but there is pink dorsal scaling on the antenna and there is a olive-green band running along the costa that contrasts strongly with the almost white ground colour of...

  • Cechenena subangustata
    Cechenena subangustata
    Cechenena subangustata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, Thailand, south-western China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Cechenena transpacifica
    Cechenena transpacifica
    Cechenena transpacifica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.It is similar to Cechenena chimaera but the basal area of the forewing underside is reddish-ochre. Adults are sexually dimorphic. The intensity of the dark pattern of the forewing upperside in males is...


Genus Cephonodes
Cephonodes
Cephonodes is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Cephonodes apus - *Cephonodes armatus - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Cephonodes banksi - Clark 1923*Cephonodes hylas -...

  • Cephonodes apus
    Cephonodes apus
    Cephonodes apus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Islands of Réunion and Mauritius.The upperside of the abdomen is bicoloured, the anterior half green, the posterior half red. The upperside of the head, thorax, wing bases and first four abdominal segments are unicolorous...

  • Cephonodes armatus
    Cephonodes armatus
    Cephonodes armatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Fiji and the northern Mariana Islands.The upperside is deep green. It is similar to Cephonodes janus janus but abdominal segments five and six each have a small lateral red spot, or segment five has a complete red belt. The...

  • Cephonodes banksi
    Cephonodes banksi
    Cephonodes banksi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines and Sulawesi.The upperside of the abdomen is tri-coloured . The abdomen upperside has a prominent transverse white line preceding a reddish-orange band...

  • Cephonodes hylas
    Cephonodes hylas
    The Pellucid Hawk Moth is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Found in Africa, India, South-East Asia and Australia, the Cephonodes hylas has a wingspan of 45-73 mm....

  • Cephonodes janus
    Cephonodes janus
    Cephonodes janus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland, Flores and New Caledonia.The wingspan is about 50 mm. This species has a very narrow opaque margin around the wings, and a uniformly brown abdomen.-Subspecies:...

  • Cephonodes kingii
    Cephonodes kingii
    The Gardenia Bee Hawk is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the northern two thirds of Australia.The wingspan is about 40 mm. Adults resemble bumble bees. They are mostly green with a yellow abdomen and a black band around the first few abdominal segments, and a dark mark on the next...

  • Cephonodes leucogaster
    Cephonodes leucogaster
    Cephonodes leucogaster is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Cephonodes lifuensis
    Cephonodes lifuensis
    Cephonodes lifuensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from New Caledonia....

  • Cephonodes novebudensis
    Cephonodes novebudensis
    Cephonodes novebudensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Vanuatu.The length of the forewings is about 23 mm. It is similar to Cephonodes lifuensis....

  • Cephonodes picus
    Cephonodes picus
    Cephonodes picus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in most of the old world tropics, including India, the Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Torres Strait Islands, Brunei and the Chagos Archipelago....

  • Cephonodes rothschildi
    Cephonodes rothschildi
    Cephonodes rothschildi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Star Mountains in Papua New Guinea....

  • Cephonodes rufescens
    Cephonodes rufescens
    Cephonodes rufescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The upperside of the head, thorax and wing bases is unicolorous brown. The abdomen is reddish mixed with brown....

  • Cephonodes tamsi
    Cephonodes tamsi
    Cephonodes tamsi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Seychelles.It is very similar to Cephonodes trochilus, but distinguishable by the reddish rather than brownish upperside of the abdomen and the white centres to the abdominal segments below. The upperside of the head, thorax...

  • Cephonodes titan
    Cephonodes titan
    Cephonodes titan is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ambon.It is the largest species of the Cephonodes genus. The upperside of the head, thorax, abdomen and wing bases is black. The underside of the thorax is orange, while the underside of the wing bases and abdomen is black. The...

  • Cephonodes trochilus
    Cephonodes trochilus
    Cephonodes trochilus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mauritius.The wingspan is 38-41 mm. It is very similar to Cephonodes tamsi, but distinguishable by the brownish rather than reddish upperside of the abdomen. The upperside of the head, thorax and wing bases are unicolorous...

  • Cephonodes woodfordii
    Cephonodes woodfordii
    Cephonodes woodfordii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago and the Solomon Islands....

  • Cephonodes xanthus
    Cephonodes xanthus
    Cephonodes xanthus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Japan ....


Genus Chaerocina
Chaerocina
Chaerocina is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Chaerocina dohertyi - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Chaerocina ellisoni - Hayes 1963*Chaerocina jordani - Berio 1938*Chaerocina livingstonensis - Darge, 2006...

  • Chaerocina dohertyi
    Chaerocina dohertyi
    Chaerocina dohertyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forests in Kenya and Uganda.The length of the forewings is 45-49 mm. The head and thorax are dark brown, edged...

  • Chaerocina ellisoni
    Chaerocina ellisoni
    Chaerocina ellisoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the highlands of Ethiopia.The length of the forewings is about 34 mm. The head and thorax are bright grass green with whitish edges. The abdomen is paler green. The forewings are bright grass green with a straight darker green...

  • Chaerocina jordani
    Chaerocina jordani
    Chaerocina jordani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the highlands of Ethiopia.The length of the forewings is 37-38 mm. The head and body are bright deep green. The sides of the thorax are whitish pink. The forewings are deep green with four regular darker green transverse lines,...


Genus Daphnis
Daphnis
In Greek mythology, Daphnis was a son of Hermes and a Sicilian nymph. A shepherd and flautist, he was the inventor of pastoral poetry. A naiad fell in love with him, but he was not faithful to her. In revenge, she either blinded him or turned him to stone...

  • Daphnis dohertyi
    Daphnis dohertyi
    Daphnis dohertyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines the Solomon Islands and Queensland....

  • Daphnis hayesi
    Daphnis hayesi
    Daphnis hayesi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi in Indonesia.The length of the forewings is 41-43 mm. The forewing upperside is similar to Daphnis hypothous hypothous but differs in details of pattern, there is a dark green sharply delimited sinuous line across the...

  • Daphnis hypothous
    Daphnis hypothous
    Daphnis hypothous is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, southern and northern India, Nepal, Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is a rare vagrant to the western Palaearctic ecozone...

  • Daphnis layardii
    Daphnis layardii
    Daphnis layardii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka.It is similar to Daphnis moorei but smaller. The forewing upperside is similar to Daphnis moorei, but the white highlighting of many of the pattern elements reduced or absent, giving a much flatter and less contrasted...

  • Daphnis minima
    Daphnis minima
    Daphnis minima is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.It is similar to Daphnis placida placida but smaller and the forewing upperside median olive-green band is less oblique, wider posteriorly and narrower before the middle....

  • Daphnis nerii
    Daphnis nerii
    Daphnis nerii , known as the Oleander Hawk-moth, is a moth of the Sphingidae family.-Distribution:Daphnis nerii is a large hawk-moth found in wide areas of Africa and Asia...

  • Daphnis placida
    Daphnis placida
    Daphnis placida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia , the Solomon Islands and the northern half of Australia....

  • Daphnis protrudens
    Daphnis protrudens
    Daphnis protrudens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland.The wingspan is about 100 mm. Adults have wings with a bold pattern of pale and dark brown. There is a contrasting pair of dark brown and white bands across the first abdominal segment...

  • Daphnis torenia
    Daphnis torenia
    Daphnis torenia is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the Pacific, including Fiji, the New Hebrides and Hawaii.It was considered a subspecies of Daphnis placida for some time, but was reinstated as a species...

  • Daphnis vriesi
    Daphnis vriesi
    Daphnis vriesi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The length of the forewings is 35-38 mm for males and 38-42 mm for females. The forewing upperside is similar to Daphnis hayesi, but the ground colour is brown, lacking any green scaling....


Genus Darapsa
Darapsa
Darapsa is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Darapsa choerilus - *Darapsa myron - *Darapsa versicolor -...

  • Darapsa choerilus
    Darapsa choerilus
    The Azalea Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the United States and southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains.The wingspan is 57-75 mm.The larvae feed on Azalea and Viburnum species....

  • Darapsa myron
    Darapsa myron
    The Virginia creeper sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Maine south to south Florida; west to North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas...

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  • Darapsa versicolor
    Darapsa versicolor
    The Hydrangea sphinx is a member of the Sphingidae family that inhabits eastern North America, often in wetlands.Their wingspans can reach 58 to 80 mm, their forewings are green-brown with curved white patches...


Genus Deilephila
Deilephila
The genus Deilephila is part of the family Sphingidae, the hawk-moths or sphinxes. It consists of a small number of species most of which have common names involving the phrase "Elephant hawk moth". They include the Elephant hawk moth, Deilephila elpenor, the Small Elephant Hawk Moth and the...

  • Deilephila askoldensis
    Deilephila askoldensis
    Deilephila askoldensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in south-eastern Russia, north-eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and northern Japan.The wingspan is 51-59 mm....

  • Deilephila elpenor
  • Deilephila porcellus
    Deilephila porcellus
    Deilephila porcellus, known as the Small Elephant Hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.The wingspan is . The moth flies from May to July depending on the location....

  • Deilephila rivularis
    Deilephila rivularis
    The Chitral Elephant Hawk Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in east and central Afghanistan, Pakistan and in northern India .The wingspan is 64-82 mm....


Genus Enpinanga
Enpinanga
Enpinanga is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Enpinanga assamensis - *Enpinanga borneensis - *Enpinanga vigens -...

  • Enpinanga assamensis
    Enpinanga assamensis
    Enpinanga assamensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, Nepal, north-eastern India, Bangladesh, the Andaman Islands, the Nicobar Islands, Thailand, southern China and northern Vietnam.-Male:...

  • Enpinanga borneensis
    Enpinanga borneensis
    Enpinanga borneensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines .-Male:...

  • Enpinanga vigens
    Enpinanga vigens
    Enpinanga vigens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern Thailand, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines.-Male:...


Genus Enyo
Enyo
Enyo , was an ancient goddess of war, acting as a counterpart and companion to the war god Ares. She is also identified as his sister, and daughter of Zeus and Hera, in a role closely resembling that of Eris; with Homer representing the two as the same goddess...

  • Enyo bathus
    Enyo bathus
    Enyo bathus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru and Bolivia.It is similar to Enyo gorgon and Enyo taedium taedium, but there are no patches of woolly scaling on the abdomen. The forewing upperside is intermediate in pattern between these two species...

  • Enyo boisduvali
    Enyo boisduvali
    Enyo boisduvali is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba.It is similar to Enyo lugubris lugubris, but can be distinguished by the well-developed, strongly dentate postmedian lines on the undersides of both wings. Furthermore, the centre of the thorax is paler grey than the tegulae...

  • Enyo cavifer
    Enyo cavifer
    Enyo cavifer is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903. It is found from Central America to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia.The wingspan is 60-62 mm. Adults are probably on wing in two to...

  • Enyo gorgon
    Enyo gorgon
    Enyo gorgon is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico to the northern part of South America.The wingspan is 66-72 mm. There are probably two to three generations per year. Adults are on from May to June, August to September and from December to January in Costa Rica. In Bolivia,...

  • Enyo latipennis
    Enyo latipennis
    Enyo latipennis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903. It is known from Jamaica.There are probably two or three generations per year....

  • Enyo lugubris
    Enyo lugubris
    The Mournful sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the West Indies through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Mexico...

  • Enyo ocypete
    Enyo ocypete
    Enyo ocypete is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the southern United States, through Central America to Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina....

  • Enyo taedium
    Enyo taedium
    Enyo taedium is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Schaus, in 1890. It is found from Mexico and Belize south to Costa Rica, northern Venezuela and Ecuador.Adults are on wing in May in Costa Rica....


Genus Erinnyis
Erinnyis
Erinnyis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Erinnyis alope - *Erinnyis crameri - *Erinnyis ello - *Erinnyis guttularis -...

  • Erinnyis alope
    Erinnyis alope
    The Alope Sphinx is a moth of the Family Sphingidae. It lives from the Northern part of South America, through Central America, up to Northern Mexico and the very south of the United States, although strays have been recorded as far north as Arkansas and Kansas.The wingspan is 82-100 mm...

  • Erinnyis crameri
    Erinnyis crameri
    The Cramer's Sphinx is a small member of the Sphingidae family. It lives from northern South America, through Central America, and into the lower regions of the United States ....

  • Erinnyis domingonis
  • Erinnyis ello
    Erinnyis ello
    Erinnyis ello, commonly known as the Ello Sphinx, is a member of the Sphingidae family. It resides from Argentina, through Central America, and as far north as Nevada, US in North America....

  • Erinnyis guttularis
    Erinnyis guttularis
    Erinnyis guttalaris is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Walker, in 1856. It is known from Cuba and the Dominican Republic....

  • Erinnyis impunctata
    Erinnyis impunctata
    Erinnyis impunctata is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903. It is known from Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela....

  • Erinnyis lassauxii
    Erinnyis lassauxii
    The Lassaux's Sphinx is a moth of the Family Sphingidae. It lives from northern Argentina, through Central America, and into the lower United States ....

  • Erinnyis obscura
    Erinnyis obscura
    The Obscure Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from the northern part of South America up to the central United States....

  • Erinnyis oenotrus
    Erinnyis oenotrus
    The Oenotrus Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in tropical and subtropical lowlands in Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina, north through Central America, Mexico and the West Indies. Occasional strays have been recorded from Florida and southern Texas.The wingspan is 73-86...

  • Erinnyis pallida
    Erinnyis pallida
    The Pallid Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba.The wingspan is 56-65 mm. Adults are probably on wing year round and possibly feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Saponaria officinalis and Asystasia gangetica.The larvae probably feed on Apocynaceae species...

  • Erinnyis stheno
    Erinnyis stheno
    Erinnyis stheno is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Barbados.It is similar to Erinnyis obscura obscura, but the forewings are shorter and broader and the median black longitudinal streak is replaced by a transverse sagittate pattern in males....

  • Erinnyis yucatana
    Erinnyis yucatana
    Erinnyis yucatana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico and Belize south to at least Costa Rica.The wingspan is 92-96 mm. Adults are probably on wing year round....


Genus Eumorpha
Eumorpha
Eumorpha is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family. The genus is mostly found in North and South America.-Species:*Eumorpha achemon - *Eumorpha adamsi -...

  • Eumorpha achemon
    Eumorpha achemon
    The Achemon sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Maine west to North Dakota, Manitoba and southern Oregon and south to southern Florida, west to southern California and Mexico.The wingspan is 87-97 mm...

  • Eumorpha adamsi
    Eumorpha adamsi
    Eumorpha adamsi is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903, and is known from Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay but is probably present throughout most of South America....

  • Eumorpha analis
    Eumorpha analis
    Eumorpha analis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.The upperside of the body and wings is similar to Eumorpha satellitia satellitia but the ground colour is darker and more olive-green. There is a conspicuous dark stripe on the head and...

  • Eumorpha anchemolus
    Eumorpha anchemolus
    The Anchemola Sphinx Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Argentina through Central America and into Texas, United States....

  • Eumorpha capronnieri
    Eumorpha capronnieri
    Eumorpha capronnieri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from French Guiana to southern Nicaragua, Costa Rica and probably Panama. Southwards it is found up to Bolivia and northern Argentina....

  • Eumorpha cissi
    Eumorpha cissi
    Eumorpha cissi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Venezuela south to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and north-western Argentina....

  • Eumorpha drucei
    Eumorpha drucei
    Eumorpha drucei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador.The length of the forewings is about 40 mm. The upperside of the body is similar to Eumorpha analis, but the ground colour is deeper olive green. There is a narrower pale dorsal line on the abdomen, as well as larger and...

  • Eumorpha elisa
    Eumorpha elisa
    Eumorpha elisa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico and Guatemala.Adults are greenish-grey and recognizable by the rhombiform patch on the posterior margin of the hindwing upperside with dark basal and distal edges. The forewing upperside ground colour is greyish-brown with...

  • Eumorpha fasciatus
    Eumorpha fasciatus
    The Banded Sphinx Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from northern Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, north through Central America to southern California and southern Arizona, east to Texas, Mississippi, Florida and South Carolina...

  • Eumorpha intermedia
    Eumorpha intermedia
    The Intermediate Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives in North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Texas....

  • Eumorpha labruscae
  • Eumorpha megaeacus
    Eumorpha megaeacus
    Eumorpha megaeacus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found throughout most of Central America and South America, from Suriname, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, southern Brazil and Bolivia to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Mexico. Occasionally strays can be found as far north as Texas.The...

  • Eumorpha mirificatus
    Eumorpha mirificatus
    Eumorpha mirificatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the western tip of Cuba.It is similar to Eumorpha strenua, but has a narrower apical oblique stripe and dorsal abdominal stripe. Furthermore, there is a distinctive pinkish tone to the median area of the hindwing upperside,...

  • Eumorpha neubergeri
    Eumorpha neubergeri
    Eumorpha neubergeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina and Bolivia.The wingspan is 98-106 mm. The outer margin of the forewing is slightly crenulated...

  • Eumorpha obliquus
    Eumorpha obliquus
    Eumorpha obliquus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica south to Bolivia. It is also present in Brazil and Guadeloupe....

  • Eumorpha pandorus
  • Eumorpha phorbas
    Eumorpha phorbas
    Eumorpha phorbas is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador, Surinam, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize and Mexico.The wingspan is 112-116 mm...

  • Eumorpha satellitia
    Eumorpha satellitia
    The Satellite sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Brazil and northern Argentina north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to south Texas and southern Arizona....

  • Eumorpha strenua
    Eumorpha strenua
    Eumorpha strenua is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.The wingspan is about 105 mm...

  • Eumorpha translineatus
    Eumorpha translineatus
    Eumorpha translineatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil and Bolivia.It can be distinguished from all other Eumorpha species by the pale brown forewing upperside crossed by a series of narrow dark brown transverse lines resembling the pattern seen in species of Marumba and...

  • Eumorpha triangulum
    Eumorpha triangulum
    Eumorpha triangulum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and possibly south-eastern Paraguay....

  • Eumorpha typhon
    Eumorpha typhon
    The Typhon sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Honduras north through Mexico to southern Arizona.The wingspan is 57-64 mm. The upperside of the wings is deep red-brown with pale brown bands. Each hindwing has a pink patch along the costal margin and a triangular white spot on...

  • Eumorpha vitis
    Eumorpha vitis
    Eumorpha vitis, known as the Vine sphinx, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Argentina north through Central America, the West Indies, and Mexico to southern Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, and Florida. Strays north to Nebraska....


Genus Eupanacra
Eupanacra
Eupanacra is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Eupanacra angulata - *Eupanacra automedon - *Eupanacra busiris - *Eupanacra cadioui - Hogenes & Treadaway 1993...

  • Eupanacra angulata
    Eupanacra angulata
    Eupanacra angulata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sumatra.The forewing upperside is brown with darker brown margins. The prominent postmedian band continuous from the inner margin to the costa. There is a large, irregular, triangular area on the outer margin emphasized by...

  • Eupanacra automedon
    Eupanacra automedon
    Eupanacra automedon is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Nias, Java and Borneo....

  • Eupanacra busiris
    Eupanacra busiris
    Eupanacra busiris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Malaysia , Indonesia , Nepal, north-eastern India, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China, Vietnam and the Philippines.The wingspan is 68-82 mm. Adults of ssp...

  • Eupanacra cadioui
    Eupanacra cadioui
    Eupanacra cadioui is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The length of the forewings is about 28 mm for males and 32 mm for females. It is similar to Eupanacra busiris busiris except for some differences in the patterns on the forewing upperside, which has a pale brown...

  • Eupanacra elegantulus
    Eupanacra elegantulus
    Eupanacra elegantulus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia, including Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia the Philippines....

  • Eupanacra greetae
    Eupanacra greetae
    Eupanacra greetae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.The length of the forewings is about 26 mm. It is similar to Eupanacra tiridates and Eupanacra regularis regularis, but have broader forewings. The upperside of the forewings is dull light green with a number of lines...

  • Eupanacra harmani
    Eupanacra harmani
    Eupanacra harmani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.It is similar to Eupanacra regularis regularis, but especially males have a similar but darker pattern. The ground colour is greyish brown. There is a white apical mark on the upperside of the forewing and a row of...

  • Eupanacra hollowayi
    Eupanacra hollowayi
    Eupanacra hollowayi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia, including Malaysia, Borneo and Thailand.There is a broad pale green band on the thorax and abdomen and a prominent white subapical zig-zag mark on the forewing. The median dark oblique line fades just before...

  • Eupanacra malayana
    Eupanacra malayana
    Eupanacra malayana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, southern China , Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines ....

  • Eupanacra metallica
    Eupanacra metallica
    Eupanacra metallica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-western India across Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and northern Myanmar to south-western China....

  • Eupanacra micholitzi
    Eupanacra micholitzi
    Eupanacra micholitzi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.It is similar to Eupanacra pulchella, except for some differences on the lines on the forewing upperside. The hindwing underside inner margin is pale orange. The underside of the thorax and abdomen is white...

  • Eupanacra mydon
  • Eupanacra perfecta
    Eupanacra perfecta
    Eupanacra perfecta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, Bhutan, Myanmar, south-western China, northern Thailand and Vietnam....

  • Eupanacra poulardi
    Eupanacra poulardi
    Eupanacra poulardi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.The length of the forewings is 23-27 mm. It is similar to Eupanacra elegantulus but larger and there is no, or just a faint discal spot found on the forewing upperside. There is a well-marked dark median line on the...

  • Eupanacra psaltria
    Eupanacra psaltria
    Eupanacra psaltria is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Borneo....

  • Eupanacra pulchella
    Eupanacra pulchella
    Eupanacra pulchella is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.It is similar to Eupanacra micholitzi. Adults have a dark forewing upperside with yellow stripes and an orange hindwing upperside with a dark marginal band. There is a conspicuous discal spot on the forewing...

  • Eupanacra radians
    Eupanacra radians
    Eupanacra radians is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sumatra.The length of the forewings is about 24.5 mm. It is similar to Eupanacra sinuata, but smaller, with a clearer pattern and narrower hindwings. The outer half of the underside of the forewings is reddish brown and the...

  • Eupanacra regularis
    Eupanacra regularis
    Eupanacra regularis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India and south-east Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia .It is similar to Eupanacra automedon.-Subspecies:...

  • Eupanacra sinuata
    Eupanacra sinuata
    Eupanacra sinuata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, south-western China, northern Thailand and Vietnam....

  • Eupanacra splendens
    Eupanacra splendens
    Eupanacra splendens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and north-eastern Australia....

  • Eupanacra tiridates
    Eupanacra tiridates
    Eupanacra tiridates is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.It is similar to Eupanacra regularis regularis, but the postmedian lines on the forewing upperside are less curved. There is a black costal mark, a smaller costal spot and a triangular, white subapical mark...

  • Eupanacra treadawayi
    Eupanacra treadawayi
    Eupanacra treadawayi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The length of the forewings is 26.5-28 mm. It is similar to Eupanacra angulata, except for differences in the tegulae and the upperside of the abdomen , as well as the form of the forewing...

  • Eupanacra variolosa
    Eupanacra variolosa
    Eupanacra variolosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, Bangladesh, south-western China, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia .The wingspan is 56-80 mm...


Genus Euproserpinus
Euproserpinus
Euproserpinus is a genus of sphinx moth in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Euproserpinus euterpe - Edwards 1888*Euproserpinus phaeton - Grote & Robinson 1865*Euproserpinus wiesti - Sperry 1939...

  • Euproserpinus euterpe
    Euproserpinus euterpe
    Euproserpinus euterpe is a small day-flying moth in the Sphingidae family. The 0.04-inch, light green eggs are laid haphazardly on various plants in the vicinity of the evening primrose host plants...

  • Euproserpinus phaeton
    Euproserpinus phaeton
    The Phaeton Primrose Sphinx Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from California south to Baja California Sur and further into Mexico. It is also been reported in south-western Arizona....

  • Euproserpinus wiesti

Genus Eupyrrhoglossum
Eupyrrhoglossum
Eupyrrhoglossum is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Eupyrrhoglossum corvus - *Eupyrrhoglossum sagra - *Eupyrrhoglossum venustum - Rothschild & Jordan, 1910...

  • Eupyrrhoglossum corvus
    Eupyrrhoglossum corvus
    Eupyrrhoglossum corvus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from tropical and subtropical lowlands from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru....

  • Eupyrrhoglossum sagra
    Eupyrrhoglossum sagra
    The Cuban Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from tropical and subtropical lowlands in Cuba and from Mexico and Belize to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. Occasionally, strays are found in Florida.The wingspan is 51-53 mm. There is a...

  • Eupyrrhoglossum ventustum

Genus Eurypteryx
Eurypteryx
Eurypteryx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Eurypteryx alleni - Hogenes & Treadaway, 1993*Eurypteryx bhaga - *Eurypteryx dianae - Brechlin, 2006*Eurypteryx falcata - Gehlen, 1922...

  • Eurypteryx alleni
    Eurypteryx alleni
    Eurypteryx alleni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the Philippines, Sulawesi, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand and probably part of Indonesia....

  • Eurypteryx bhaga
    Eurypteryx bhaga
    Eurypteryx bhaga is a moth of the Sphingidae family.-Description:The wingspan is 82-84 mm. It is similar to Daphnis species, but easily distinguished by the falcate apex of the forewing, which also lacks a large oval dark green basal patch on the upperside...

  • Eurypteryx falcata
    Eurypteryx falcata
    Eurypteryx falcata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.-Description:The forewing upperside has a dark brown triangle with its base along the costa, where there are several small paler spots. The apex of this triangle is directed towards the inner margin. There is a...

  • Eurypteryx geoffreyi
    Eurypteryx geoffreyi
    Eurypteryx geoffreyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand.The length of the forewings is 31 mm for males and 38 mm for females. It is similar to Eurypteryx shelfordi but smaller. The abdominal anal tuft is black. The forewing upperside of the males has no discal spot and...

  • Eurypteryx molucca
    Eurypteryx molucca
    Eurypteryx molucca is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines , the Moluccas and Papua New Guinea.It is easily distinguished from all other Eurypteryx species by the conspicuous off-white patch on the forewing upperside near the apex....

  • Eurypteryx obtruncata
    Eurypteryx obtruncata
    Eurypteryx obtruncata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.It is similar to Eurypteryx bhaga, but the forewing outer margin is more curved and the hindwing apex is obtusely cut. The forewing upperside has an antemedian band lacking a pale border. The forewing underside has...

  • Eurypteryx shelfordi
    Eurypteryx shelfordi
    Eurypteryx shelfordi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Borneo and Sumatra.The length of the forewings is 42-46 mm. The abdominal anal tuft is dark brown, like the rest of the body. The antennae are cream dorsally and brown towards the base. The upperside of the thorax and abdomen...


Genus Gehlenia

  • Gehlenia bruno
  • Gehlenia falcata
  • Gehlenia obliquifascia
  • Gehlenia pinratanai
  • Gehlenia taiwana

Genus Gnathothlibus
Gnathothlibus
Gnathothlibus is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Gnathothlibus australiensis - Lachlan, 2004*Gnathothlibus brendelli - Hayes 1983*Gnathothlibus collardi - Haxaire, 2002*Gnathothlibus dabrera - Eitschberger 1999...

  • Gnathothlibus brendelli
    Gnathothlibus brendelli
    Gnathothlibus brendelli is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.-Description:The length of the forewings is about 46 mm. It is similar to Gnathothlibus meeki but differs in the longer, strongly falcate forewings, the red coloration on the underside of the thorax and the...

  • Gnathothlibus dabrera
    Gnathothlibus dabrera
    Gnathothlibus dabrera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.The wingspan is 62-76.8 mm for males and 81.5 mm for females. It differs from Gnathothlibus erotus in its smaller size and darker ground colour...

  • Gnathothlibus erotus
    Gnathothlibus erotus
    The White-brow hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from India to the south Pacific, including Borneo, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Australia.The wingspan is about 70 mm...

  • Gnathothlibus heliodes
    Gnathothlibus heliodes
    Gnathothlibus heliodes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and some adjacent islands.The outer margin of the forewing is straight or very slightly convex. The forewing upperside ground colour is light brown with a straight brown postmedian line, two slightly convex...

  • Gnathothlibus meeki
    Gnathothlibus meeki
    Gnathothlibus meeki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea. It prefers mountainous areas.It is rather variable in ground colour. There are very dark specimens and the forewing colour can range from brown to olive green....


Genus Hemaris
Hemaris
Hemaris is a Holarctic genus of sphinx moths, consisting of about 17 species living in the Holarctic, four of which fly in North and South America, three fly in Europe. Their main host plants are herbs and shrubs of the Dipsacaceae and Caprifoliaceae families...

  • Hemaris affinis
    Hemaris affinis
    Hemaris affinis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mongolia, the Russian Far East, northern, central and eastern China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea and Japan....

  • Hemaris aksana
    Hemaris aksana
    The Atlas Bee Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Middle and High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The habitat consists of flower-rich meadows between 1,300 and 2,500 meters....

  • Hemaris beresowskii
    Hemaris beresowskii
    Hemaris beresowskii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-western China.There is a transparent discal cell on the forewing which is generally divided longitudinally by a vestigial scaled fold. The hindwing upperside very similar to Hemaris ottonis....

  • Hemaris croatica
    Hemaris croatica
    Hemaris croatica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found on the Balkan, Anatolia and the Caucasus to Iran. Along the Mediterranean coast it is found up to northern Israel. There are local populations on the Crimea and in eastern Ukraine and western Kazachstan.The wingspan is 36-64 mm up to...

  • Hemaris dentata
    Hemaris dentata
    The Anatolian Bee Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern Turkey as far west as the Toros Mountains....

  • Hemaris diffinis
    Hemaris diffinis
    The Snowberry Clearwing is a moth of the order Lepidoptera, family Sphingidae.-Adults:It is about 1.25”- 2”. The moth's abdomen has yellow and black segments much like those of the bumblebee, whom it might be mistaken for due to its color and flight pattern similarities...

  • Hemaris ducalis
    Hemaris ducalis
    Hemaris ducalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the mountains of south-western Xinjiang in China, the western Tian Shan, southern and eastern Kazakhstan up to the Altai Mountains, western Mongolia, southern Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, northern Afghanistan and...

  • Hemaris fuciformis
    Hemaris fuciformis
    Hemaris fuciformis, known as the Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in North Africa, Europe and Central and Eastern Asia.The wingspan is...

  • Hemaris gracilis
    Hemaris gracilis
    The Slender Clearwing or Graceful Clearwing is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to central Florida along the East Coast and west through New England to Michigan to Saskatchewan....

  • Hemaris ottonis
    Hemaris ottonis
    Hemaris ottonis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Russian Far East, north-eastern China and the Korean Peninsula.The wingspan is 37-40 mm. It is similar to Hemaris staudingeri but distinguishable by the pale lateral stripes on the upperside of the thorax...

  • Hemaris radians
    Hemaris radians
    Hemaris radians is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern Siberia, Mongolia, the southern Russian Far East, north-eastern and central-eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan....

  • Hemaris rubra
    Hemaris rubra
    The Kashmir Bee Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from a number of valleys in Kashmir. The habitat consists of flower-rich meadows at around 2,500 meters....

  • Hemaris saundersii
    Hemaris saundersii
    Saunders' Bee Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from southern Kashmir, northern Pakistan, northern India and north-eastern Afghanistan, eastwards along the Himalayan foothills of India to Bangladesh and northern Myanmar...

  • Hemaris senta
    Hemaris senta
    The Rocky Mountain clearwing or California Clearwing is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah west to California and north to British Columbia. The habitat consists of streamsides and meadows in mountainous areas.The wingspan is...

  • Hemaris staudingeri
    Hemaris staudingeri
    Hemaris staudingeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from eastern and central China north to the southern part of the Russian Far East....

  • Hemaris syra
    Hemaris syra
    The Broad-bordered Bee Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern and eastern Turkey, the western Zagros Mountains and northern Alborz Mountains of Iran, the Kopet Dag Mountains of Turkmenistan, western Jordan and northern Israel...

  • Hemaris thysbe
    Hemaris thysbe
    Hemaris thysbe, or the Hummingbird Clearwing, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives in Alaska and the Northwest Territories south through British Columbia to Oregon; east through the Great Plains and the Great Lakes area to Maine and Newfoundland; south to Florida and Texas.Adults are...

  • Hemaris tityus
    Hemaris tityus
    Hemaris tityus, the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth, is one of two similar species of sphingid moth occurring in Britain that closely mimic a bumblebee. It has a wide range, from Ireland across temperate Europe to the Ural Mountains, western Siberia, Novosibirsk and the Altai...

  • Hemaris venata
    Hemaris venata
    Hemaris venata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Seram and Papua New Guinea.The antenna is slender with a long hook. The underside of the thorax, legs, abdomen and apex of the anal tuft are yellow....


Genus Hemeroplanes
Hemeroplanes
Hemeroplanes is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Hemeroplanes diffusa - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Hemeroplanes longistriga - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Hemeroplanes ornatus - Rothschild 1894...

  • Hemeroplanes diffusa
    Hemeroplanes diffusa
    Hemeroplanes diffusa is a moth of the Sphingidae family.-Description:This species has lateral yellow bands of colour delimiting the abdominal segments. These occur on the upperside, along the entire length. The tergites are fringed with yellow colouration...

  • Hemeroplanes longistriga
    Hemeroplanes longistriga
    Hemeroplanes longistriga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil and Ecuador.It differs from all other Hemeroplanes species by the very long silver mark on the forewing upperside and lack of yellow bands on the upperside of the abdomen.There are probably at least two generations...

  • Hemeroplanes ornatus
    Hemeroplanes ornatus
    Hemeroplanes ornatus is a species of sphinx moth native to Mexico through northern South America.-Description:H. ornatus is mainly light brownish-gray with green, pink, and dark brown markings. In the fore wing cell, there is a short silver mark...

  • Hemeroplanes triptolemus
    Hemeroplanes triptolemus
    Hemeroplanes triptolemus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and probably flies throughout Central America into Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela and Guyana....


Genus Hippotion
Hippotion
Hippotion is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Hippotion adelinae - Schmit, 2005*Hippotion aporodes - Rothschild & Jordan 1910*Hippotion aurora - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Hippotion balsaminae -...

  • Hippotion aporodes
    Hippotion aporodes
    Hippotion aporodes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Ivory Coast to Congo and Uganda. In West Africa it is a strong migrant, moving regularly north and south with the Intertropical Convergence Zone....

  • Hippotion aurora
    Hippotion aurora
    Hippotion aurora is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar, Assumption Island, the Farquhar Islands and the Glorioso Islands....

  • Hippotion balsaminae
    Hippotion balsaminae
    Hippotion balsaminae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is common in most habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar....

  • Hippotion batschii
    Hippotion batschii
    Hippotion batschii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is very similar to Hippotion saclavorum, but distinguishable by the darker reddish-brown colour of the upperside of the body and forewings...

  • Hippotion boerhaviae
    Hippotion boerhaviae
    Hippotion boerhaviae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Thailand, south-eastern China , Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, eastern Australia and New Caledonia....

  • Hippotion brennus
    Hippotion brennus
    Hippotion brennus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and north-eastern Australia....

  • Hippotion brunnea
    Hippotion brunnea
    Hippotion brunnea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia.It is similar in forewing pattern to Hippotion brennus form rubribrenna but distinguishable by the entirely brown hindwing upperside, the strong white dorsal line running from the head to the tip of the abdomen and the...

  • Hippotion butleri
    Hippotion butleri
    Hippotion butleri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is superficially similar to Rhagastis mongoliana but distinguishable by the conspicuously black-and-white chequered forewing fringes. The forewing upperside basal two-thirds and marginal band are pale khaki and the...

  • Hippotion celerio
    Hippotion celerio
    Hippotion celerio, known as the Vine Hawk-Moth or Silver-striped Hawk-Moth, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Africa, Southern Europe, Central and Southern Asia and Australia. It can be found further north, because of its migratory nature.-Colouring and marks :The body and forewing...

  • Hippotion chauchowensis
  • Hippotion chloris
    Hippotion chloris
    Hippotion chloris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Kenya.The length of the forewings is about 32 mm. The body is more robust than Hippotion celerio and olive green. The forewings are olive green...

  • Hippotion commatum
    Hippotion commatum
    Hippotion commatum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.The length of the forewings is 37-38 mm. The abdomen upperside is similar to Hippotion velox, but the paired oblique subdorsal silvery dashes are replaced by elongate greyish-white spots that are parallel to...

  • Hippotion dexippus
    Hippotion dexippus
    Hippotion dexippus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry areas in eastern Kenya.It is very similar to Hippotion rosae, but the antennae are grey, the colour is slightly more ochreous and the dark markings are slightly better developed. It is usually smaller than H...

  • Hippotion echeclus
    Hippotion echeclus
    Hippotion echeclus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern and eastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, south-eastern China, southern Japan , Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines .The wingspan is 64-84 mm.Larvae have been recorded on Sesamum indicum and...

  • Hippotion eson
    Hippotion eson
    Hippotion eson is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is very common in most habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar and the Seychelles. It is a migratory species....

  • Hippotion geryon
    Hippotion geryon
    Hippotion geryon is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.It is similar to Hippotion osiris, but is immediately distinguishable by the lack of pink coloration on the hindwing upperside and the single pair of black abdominal patches. The upperside of the...

  • Hippotion griveaudi
    Hippotion griveaudi
    Hippotion griveaudi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is similar to Hippotion batschi, but distinguishable by the narrow white dorsal line on the abdomen. The upperside of the thorax and abdomen has a narrow white dorsal line. The forewing upperside is dark...

  • Hippotion hateleyi
    Hippotion hateleyi
    Hippotion hateleyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Henderson Island.The length of the forewings is about 32 mm. It is superficially similar to Hippotion velox form rosea, but distinguishable by the strong orange ground colour....

  • Hippotion irregularis
    Hippotion irregularis
    Hippotion irregularis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Liberia to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. It is also found in the Usambara area of Tanzania....

  • Hippotion isis
    Hippotion isis
    Hippotion isis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mauritius.The length of the forewings is about 29 mm. It is extremely similar to Hippotion aurora delicata but differing in the buff colour of the median band of the hindwing upperside and the absence of any dorsal longitudinal...

  • Hippotion joiceyi
    Hippotion joiceyi
    Hippotion joiceyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Indonesia.The length of the forewings is about 30 mm. It is very similar to Hippotion brennus form brennus but immediately distinguishable by the lack of paired subdorsal white spots on the abdomen. The frons and upperside of the...

  • Hippotion leucocephalus
    Hippotion leucocephalus
    Hippotion leucocephalus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is probably found in Africa, but the identity of this taxon, which is known only from the holotype female, is unclear, especially as Röber stated it was presumably a species found in Africa...

  • Hippotion moorei
    Hippotion moorei
    Hippotion moorei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry areas from northern Tanzania to Ethiopia and Somalia.The length of the forewings 28-34 mm for males and 35-40 mm for females. It is very similar to Hippotion rosae, but can be distinguished by the absence of the white margins...

  • Hippotion osiris
    Hippotion osiris
    Hippotion osiris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is common throughout most of the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar and the Seychelles. Occasional vagrants have been recorded from Spain. It is uncommon on the East African coast. This species is an occasional migrant.The length of the...

  • Hippotion paukstadti
    Hippotion paukstadti
    Hippotion paukstadti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Indonesia.The length of the forewings 23-24 mm for males and 23 mm for females. It is very similar to Hippotion brennus and Hippotion joiceyi but smaller...

  • Hippotion pentagramma
    Hippotion pentagramma
    Hippotion pentagramma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the arid areas in Arabia, Somalia and Ethiopia.The length of the forewings is 22-24 rnm. The head, body and forewings are pale sandy brown. The forewings are marked with five narrow evenly curved parallel darker lines...

  • Hippotion psammochroma
    Hippotion psammochroma
    Hippotion psammochroma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Burkina Faso. It was described by Jean-Pierre Lequeux in 1989.The wingspan is 54 mm for males and 55 mm for females. It is similar to Hippotion rebeli, but the forewings and hindwings are more slender and apically pointed,...

  • Hippotion rafflesii
    Hippotion rafflesii
    Hippotion rafflesii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, southern and eastern India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines....

  • Hippotion rebeli
    Hippotion rebeli
    Hippotion rebeli is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry areas in northern Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Arabia.The length of the forewings is 25-28 mm...

  • Hippotion rosae
    Hippotion rosae
    Hippotion rosae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Dry areas from south-western Africa to Mozambique and northwards to East Africa. It is also present on Socotra....

  • Hippotion roseipennis
    Hippotion roseipennis
    Hippotion roseipennis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry areas from KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and south-western Ethiopia....

  • Hippotion rosetta
    Hippotion rosetta
    Hippotion rosetta is a species of Sphingid moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from southern Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, east across Thailand, southern China and Taiwan to southern Japan and the Philippines, then south across south-east Asia to the Andaman Islands, eastern Indonesia, the...

  • Hippotion saclavorum
    Hippotion saclavorum
    Hippotion saclavorum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The length of the forewings is about 23 mm. This is a small, brown species which is similar to Hippotion balsaminae but with shorter and more rounded forewings. The abdomen upperside has dorsal and subdorsal...

  • Hippotion scrofa
    Hippotion scrofa
    Hippotion scrofa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.The wingspan is about 70 mm...

  • Hippotion socotrensis
    Hippotion socotrensis
    Hippotion socotrensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry areas from eastern Kenya to southern Ethiopia and probably Somalia. It is also present on Socotra....

  • Hippotion stigma
    Hippotion stigma
    Hippotion stigma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from arid regions of eastern and northern Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.The length of the forewing is 26-28 mm. The palpi are small. The wing margins are crenulated and the apex of the forewings is blunt. The head and body are pale...

  • Hippotion talboti
    Hippotion talboti
    Hippotion talboti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from São Tomé and Príncipe.The length of the forewings is about 29 mm. It is distinguishable from all other Hippotion species by the greenish-brown ground colour of the forewing upperside together with the red and black hindwing...

  • Hippotion velox
    Hippotion velox
    Hippotion velox is a species of Sphingid moth or the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Indo-Australian tropics east to Fiji and New Caledonia, north to Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern Japan.The wingspan is 54-76 mm....


Genus Hyles
Hyles
Hyles can refer to:*Hyles-Anderson College*Jack Hyles*Hyles sp....

  • Hyles annei
    Hyles annei
    Hyles annei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Chile, Bolivia, western Peru and Argentina.Adults are on wing in January, August and probably other months....

  • Hyles apocyni
    Hyles apocyni
    Hyles apocyni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.The larvae feed on Apocynum species....

  • Hyles biguttata
    Hyles biguttata
    Hyles biguttata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar and Réunion.The larvae feed on Agauria salicifolia and Agauria buxifolia....

  • Hyles calida
    Hyles calida
    The Hawaiian Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Oahu, Molokai and Hawaii.The larvae feed on Acacia koa, Bobea elatior, Coprosma, Gardenia, Metrosideros, Pelea, Scaevola chamissoniana, Scaevola gaudichaudiana and Straussia. Adults feed on flowers of Lantana,...

  • Hyles centralasiae
    Hyles centralasiae
    Hyles centralasiae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from eastern Turkey and Armenia east across northern Iraq, northern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, the mountainous areas of eastern Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and northern Xinjiang in...

  • Hyles chamyla
    Hyles chamyla
    Hyles chamyla is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is only known from Xinjiang in China.The wingspan is 52-75 mm. It is a variable species. The pink area of the hindwing can be intense or faint.The larvae possibly feed on Apocynum species....

  • Hyles chuvilini
    Hyles chuvilini
    Hyles chuvilini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mongolia, north-eastern China and adjacent areas of Russia and also farther south in China, in Shaanxi and Shandong...

  • Hyles costata
    Hyles costata
    Hyles costata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mongolia and adjacent areas of Russia. There are also records from farther east and south in China . It is probably much more widely distributed in northern China....

  • Hyles cretica
  • Hyles dahlii
    Hyles dahlii
    Hyles dahlii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found on Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. On rare occasions it is found on Sicily and along the north-eastern coast of Spain. It was introduced to Tunisia in the mid 1980’s....

  • Hyles euphorbiae
    Hyles euphorbiae
    The Spurge Hawk-moth is a European moth of the family Sphingidae. This hawk moth is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious weed known as leafy spurge , but usually only in conjunction with other agents...

  • Hyles euphorbiarum
    Hyles euphorbiarum
    Hyles euphorbiarum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Chile, Argentina, the Falklands, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil.Adults have been recorded in March, July, September and November, but are probably on wing throughout the year....

  • Hyles gallii
    Hyles gallii
    The Bedstraw Hawk-Moth or Gallium Sphinx is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in North America, Europe, Central Asia and Japan....

  • Hyles hippophaes
    Hyles hippophaes
    Hyles hippophaes is a species of moth in the Sphingidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey,...

  • Hyles lineata
    Hyles lineata
    The White-lined sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Central America, through the United States and into parts of Canada.-Description:...

  • Hyles livornica
    Hyles livornica
    The Striped Hawk-moth is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Africa, Southern Europe and Central and East Asia and Poland. Hyles renneri from Nepal is sometimes treated as a valid species.The wingspan is 60-80 mm...

  • Hyles livornicoides
    Hyles livornicoides
    Hyles livornicoides is a moth of the Sphingidae family. The larvae are known by the common name Yeperenye Caterpillar. It is found in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia.The wingspan is about 60 mm....

  • Hyles nervosa
    Hyles nervosa
    The Ladakh Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in eastern Afghanistan, northern and western India, northern Pakistan and the extreme west of the Xizang Province and Tibet....

  • Hyles nicaea
    Hyles nicaea
    The Mediterranean Hawk-moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. The nominate subspecies is found from southern Portugal and Spain though southern Europe to Turkey. It is also found on the Balearic Islands and in south-western Bulgaria....

  • Hyles perkinsi
    Hyles perkinsi
    Perkin's Sphinx is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is endemic to Oahu and Molokai.The forewing is greenish-grey, irrorated with white...

  • Hyles robertsi
    Hyles robertsi
    The Spurge Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Iran, the Kopet Dag Mountains of Turkmenistan, eastward to central and eastern Afghanistan, Kashmir and the Pamirs. It is also known from western Pakistan. Some authors consider it to be a subspecies of Hyles euphorbiae.The...

  • Hyles salangensis
    Hyles salangensis
    The Salang Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is only known from the Salang Pass and surrounding mountains in Afghanistan.The wingspan is 55-70 mm. Adults are on wing in early July.-External links:*...

  • Hyles sammuti
    Hyles sammuti
    Hyles sammuti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. Kitching & Cadiou treat it as a valid species, while Pittaway treat it as a subspecies of Hyles tithymali, seeing the larvae are very similar to Hyles tithymali mauretanica. Based on studies of the Mitochondrial DNA, Hyles sammuti probably...

  • Hyles siehei
    Hyles siehei
    Hyles siehei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern and eastern Turkey, Armenia, northern Syria, northern Iraq and northern Iran. Then probably south along the Zagros Mountains of Iran to the Kerman Province...

  • Hyles stroehlei
    Hyles stroehlei
    The Hindu Kush Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is only known from the Hindu Kush mountains and Kohistan in Pakistan.The wingspan is 55-70 mm. Adults are on wing from late June to early July....

  • Hyles tithymali
    Hyles tithymali
    Hyles tithymali is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in North Africa, the Canary Islands, Madeira, some islands in the Mediterranean Sea and in the mountains in Jemen.The length of the forewings is 45-85 mm.The larvae feed on Euphorbia....

  • Hyles vespertilio
    Hyles vespertilio
    Hyles vespertilio is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, as well as from Anatolia to the Caucasus...

  • Hyles wilsoni
    Hyles wilsoni
    Wilson's Sphinx is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is endemic to Hawaii.In wet districts the moth is freely on the wing at all hours of the day, visiting the flowers of Metrosideros, as well as those of cultivated plants...

  • Hyles zygophylli
    Hyles zygophylli
    The Bean-caper Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in western and eastern Turkey, Armenia, eastern Transcaucasia, Daghestan, northern Syria, northern Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan...


Genus Hypaedalea
Hypaedalea
Hypaedalea is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Hypaedalea butleri - Rothschild, 1894*Hypaedalea insignis - Butler, 1877*Hypaedalea lobipennis - Strand, 1913*Hypaedalea neglecta - Carcasson, 1972...

  • Hypaedalea butleri
    Hypaedalea butleri
    Hypaedalea butleri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is 25-27 mm for males and 25–27 mm for females. The thorax has a large green median dorsal patch that extends onto the head and is laterally bordered by...

  • Hypaedalea insignis
    Hypaedalea insignis
    Hypaedalea insignis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Sierra Leone to Gabon.The labial palps and underside of the body are orange. The forewing upperside basal area has distinct brownish-black interrupted lines and two triangular spots...

  • Hypaedalea lobipennis
    Hypaedalea lobipennis
    Hypaedalea lobipennis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from West Africa, including Cameroon and Uganda.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm. The abdomen is olive-brown dorsally, with a narrow double dark dorsal line. The underside of the head and body is light creamy-buff...

  • Hypaedalea neglecta
    Hypaedalea neglecta
    Hypaedalea neglecta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Cameroon to Uganda.The length of the forewings is about 27 mm. The thorax upperside has a large dorsal patch of raised olive-brown scales continued from the head. The labial palps are pale yellowish-buff below, dark...


Genus Isognathus
Isognathus
Isognathus is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Isognathus allamandae - Clark 1920*Isognathus australis - Clark 1917*Isognathus caricae - *Isognathus excelsior -...

  • Isognathus allamandae
    Isognathus allamandae
    Isognathus allamandae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil to Venezuela and Argentina.The wingspan is 68 mm for males and 78 mm for females. It is similar to Isognathus australis but has narrower wings and the forewing upperside is more uniform grey. There is a yellow band...

  • Isognathus australis
    Isognathus australis
    Isognathus australis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern Brazil.The wingspan is 70 mm for males. It is similar to Isognathus rimosa rimosa and Isognathus rimosa papayae but has narrower wings...

  • Isognathus caricae
    Isognathus caricae
    Isognathus caricae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Costa Rica, French Guiana, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.It is similar to Acherontia species and other Isognathus species, from which it can be distinguished by the dark marginal band of the hindwing upperside, which is...

  • Isognathus excelsior
    Isognathus excelsior
    Isognathus excelsior is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador to north-western Brazil.It can be distinguished from all other Isognathus species by the pure white underside to the abdomen with conspicuous paired black spots on each segment.There are...

  • Isognathus leachii
    Isognathus leachii
    Isognathus leachii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern Panama and from Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina....

  • Isognathus menechus
    Isognathus menechus
    Isognathus menechus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Cuba to Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.It is a heavy-bodied species...

  • Isognathus mossi
    Isognathus mossi
    Isognathus mossi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern Brazil and Venezuela.The length of the forewings is 36 mm for males and 41 mm for females. It is similar to Isognathus menechus but smaller and the ground colour of the body and wings is much darker...

  • Isognathus occidentalis
    Isognathus occidentalis
    Isognathus occidentalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, northern Brazil and French Guiana.It is similar to Isognathus excelsior but distinguishable by the pale brown underside of the abdomen. There are probably multiple generations per year.The larvae have been...

  • Isognathus rimosa
  • Isognathus scyron
    Isognathus scyron
    Isognathus scyron is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Surinam, French Guiana, Cuba, Costa Rica and Guatemala.The wingspan is 72-73 mm. There are distinct bands on the upperside of the abdomen and the underside of the abdomen is dirty white or slightly buff, faintly speckled with...

  • Isognathus swainsonii
    Isognathus swainsonii
    Isognathus swainsonii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from French Guiana, Peru and Brazil to Bolivia.The wingspan is about 82 mm...


Genus Leucostrophus
Leucostrophus
Leucostrophus is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Leucostrophus alterhirundo - Gerstaecker 1871*Leucostrophus commasiae -...

  • Leucostrophus alterhirundo
    Leucostrophus alterhirundo
    Leucostrophus alterhirundo is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Ethiopia and Somalia, south to Zambia and Malawi.The wingspan is 39-48 mm. The abdomen upperside has a pale belt on tergites four and five. It is chalky white, without a bluish tint unless scales have been rubbed off...

  • Leucostrophus commasiae
    Leucostrophus commasiae
    Leucostrophus commasiae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from west Africa to Gabon and to Kasai in south-western Congo.The abdomen upperside has a bluish white belt on tergites three and four....


Genus Macroglossum
Macroglossum
Macroglossum is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family. It has over 110 described species.-Species:*Macroglossum adustum - Rothschild & Jordan 1916*Macroglossum aesalon - Mabille 1879*Macroglossum affictitia - Butler 1875...

  • Macroglossum adustum
    Macroglossum adustum
    Macroglossum adustum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands....

  • Macroglossum aesalon
    Macroglossum aesalon
    Macroglossum aesalon is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoro Islands.The abdomen upperside has four orange lateral patches, the firsst and fourth generally small. There is also a black mesial spot at the base of the anal brush. The palpus is white,...

  • Macroglossum affictitia
    Macroglossum affictitia
    Macroglossum affictitia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka and southern India to Myanmar, Thailand and south-western China ....

  • Macroglossum albigutta
    Macroglossum albigutta
    Macroglossum albigutta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands.The length of the forewings is about 23 mm. It is a very dark species with a distinct white line above the eye. The abdomen upperside has two prominent white basal spots, brownish black side tufts and a...

  • Macroglossum albolineata
    Macroglossum albolineata
    Macroglossum albolineata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Macroglossum alcedo
    Macroglossum alcedo
    Macroglossum alcedo is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanimbar, the Kai Islands, Aru, Papua New Guinea and Queensland.Adults have brown patterned forewings and smaller yellow hindwings with a wide dark brown margin....

  • Macroglossum alluaudi
    Macroglossum alluaudi
    Macroglossum alluaudi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Seychelles.There are three orange-yellow lateral spots on the abdomen. The forewing upperside is without a discal spot, but there are two heavy straight discal lines. The basal half of the forewing underside is washed...

  • Macroglossum amoenum
    Macroglossum amoenum
    Macroglossum amoenum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South-East Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia....

  • Macroglossum aquila
    Macroglossum aquila
    Macroglossum aquila is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, Bangladesh, Thailand, southern China, Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines ....

  • Macroglossum arimasi
    Macroglossum arimasi
    Macroglossum arimasi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum assimilis
    Macroglossum assimilis
    Macroglossum assimilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India and Sri Lanka.It is similar to Macroglossum belis, but the abdomen upperside has dark lateral patches that are less black and the underside of the abdomen and wings are less reddish. The forewing upperside is flushed...

  • Macroglossum augarra
    Macroglossum augarra
    Macroglossum augarra is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Bismarck Archipelago and Papua New Guinea....

  • Macroglossum avicula
    Macroglossum avicula
    Macroglossum avicula is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia ....

  • Macroglossum belis
    Macroglossum belis
    Macroglossum belis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, Japan , Vietnam and Indonesia .The wingspan is 50-60 mm...

  • Macroglossum bifasciata
    Macroglossum bifasciata
    Macroglossum bifasciata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.The abdominal lateral patches are deep chrome yellow. The underside of both wings is ferruginous tawny and the hindwing upperside has a band of deep chrome....

  • Macroglossum bombylans
    Macroglossum bombylans
    Macroglossum bombylans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal through China to Taiwan, Korea and Japan, with one record from the Russian Far East. It is also found in northern Thailand, northern Vietnam and the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum buini
    Macroglossum buini
    Macroglossum buini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bougainville Island.The length of the forewings is about 20 mm. It is a member of the uniformly dark Macroglossum species group, but is smaller and shorter-winged than the other species in this group. The upperside of the...

  • Macroglossum buruensis
    Macroglossum buruensis
    Macroglossum buruensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Buru in Indonesia.The abdomen upperside is black, with no side patches. The underside of the thorax is chalky white extending triangularly to the base of the third segment of the abdomen. The forewing upperside has bands...

  • Macroglossum caldum
    Macroglossum caldum
    Macroglossum caldum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.-Subspecies:*Macroglossum caldum caldum*Macroglossum caldum philippinense Clark, 1928...

  • Macroglossum calescens
    Macroglossum calescens
    Macroglossum calescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.The head upperside is dark grey with a blackish mesial stripe and a distinct white line above the eye. The thorax and abdomen uppersides are black with a chestnut tint, although the anterior part of the...

  • Macroglossum castaneum
    Macroglossum castaneum
    Macroglossum castaneum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands.The upperside is generally brownish black, but the head and anterior part of the thorax are olive green, and the posterior abdominal segments are somewhat chestnut. The abdomen has two restricted yellow...

  • Macroglossum clemensi
    Macroglossum clemensi
    Macroglossum clemensi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.The length of the forewings is 24 mm for males and 25 mm for females. The abdomen has a pair of conspicuous lateral white spots. This species is similar to Macroglossum albigutta albigutta but the area distal to the...

  • Macroglossum corythus
    Macroglossum corythus
    Macroglossum corythus is a species of Hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Indo-Australian tropics east to New Caledonia.The wingspan is 50-66 mm.Larvae have been recorded from Loganiaceae and Rubiaceae species.-Subspecies:...

  • Macroglossum dohertyi
    Macroglossum dohertyi
    Macroglossum dohertyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland and Papua New Guinea.This species is distinguished from other Macroglossum species by the presence on the forewing upperside of two narrow, sharply-defined, buffish-white bands in the place of the space between...

  • Macroglossum eichhorni
    Macroglossum eichhorni
    Macroglossum eichhorni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands.The length of the forewings 24–25 mm. The head and thorax uppersides are brown, with a dark mesial stripe. The head has a white line above the eye. The palpus underside is whitish grey. The thorax...

  • Macroglossum faro
    Macroglossum faro
    Macroglossum faro is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern India, Thailand, south-eastern China, southern Japan , Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Macroglossum fritzei
    Macroglossum fritzei
    Macroglossum fritzei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-eastern China, central and southern Japan, Thailand and Borneo....

  • Macroglossum fruhstorferi
    Macroglossum fruhstorferi
    Macroglossum fruhstorferi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Obi Islands and Java.It is similar to Macroglossum calescens. The underside of the palpus and middle of the thorax are blackish grey, speckled with white scales...

  • Macroglossum glaucoptera
    Macroglossum glaucoptera
    Macroglossum glaucoptera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, Thailand, southern China, Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines ....

  • Macroglossum godeffroyi
    Macroglossum godeffroyi
    Macroglossum godeffroyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Fiji.This species is distinguished from all other Sphingidae by the presence of tufts of long hairs on the mid- and hind-tibia, similar to those of the abdominal scent organ. The abdomen has very prominent dorso-lateral...

  • Macroglossum gyrans
    Macroglossum gyrans
    Macroglossum gyrans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia.The length of the forewings is 16-23 mm. The upperside of the head, thorax, and basal half of the abdomen are the same grey colour as the forewing upperside. The underside of the palpus, thorax, and legs are...

  • Macroglossum haslami
    Macroglossum haslami
    Macroglossum haslami is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum heliophila
    Macroglossum heliophila
    Macroglossum heliophila is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-eastern India across southern China to Cheju Island , southern Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines and then south through Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to New Guinea and neighbouring islands. It is also...

  • Macroglossum hemichroma
    Macroglossum hemichroma
    Macroglossum hemichroma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia .The head and thorax uppersides have a dark median line...

  • Macroglossum hirundo
    Macroglossum hirundo
    Macroglossum hirundo is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Cook Islands, Fiji, the Society Islands, Australia , Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands....

  • Macroglossum insipida
    Macroglossum insipida
    Macroglossum insipida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, southern and eastern India, Nepal, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, Japan , Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia , Papua New Guinea and Queensland.The wingspan is 40-54 mm...

  • Macroglossum jani
    Macroglossum jani
    Macroglossum jani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.It is extremely similar to Macroglossum clemensi, but the forewing pattern is somewhat more dull. Furthermore, the pale scaling along the oblique median band and submarginal line is very faint or even absent....

  • Macroglossum joannisi
    Macroglossum joannisi
    Macroglossum joannisi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm. This species is distinguished from all other Macroglossum species by four yellow abdominal side-patches and the bright underside of the hindwing, together with the...

  • Macroglossum kitchingi
    Macroglossum kitchingi
    Macroglossum kitchingi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Macroglossum lepidum
    Macroglossum lepidum
    Macroglossum lepidum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Malaysia and the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum limata
    Macroglossum limata
    Macroglossum limata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia....

  • Macroglossum marquesanum
    Macroglossum marquesanum
    Macroglossum marquesanum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Marquesas Islands....

  • Macroglossum mediovitta
    Macroglossum mediovitta
    Macroglossum mediovitta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from southern Japan , Taiwan and southern China south through Thailand and Malaysia to Indonesia ....

  • Macroglossum meeki
    Macroglossum meeki
    Macroglossum meeki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.The length of the forewings is about 27 mm. It is similar to Macroglossum passalus and Macroglossum faro. The head upperside is slate-coloured, with a darker dorsal midline. The thorax upperside is olive green....

  • Macroglossum melas
    Macroglossum melas
    Macroglossum melas is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Salomon Islands.It is similar to Macroglossum heliophila, but the body and wings have a much deeper colour and the upper- and undersides are almost black. The head upperside has a thin white...

  • Macroglossum micacea
    Macroglossum micacea
    Macroglossum micacea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea and Queensland....

  • Macroglossum milvus
    Macroglossum milvus
    Macroglossum milvus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Réunion and Mauritius.The head and thorax uppersides have a dark mesial line. The abdomen upperside has four orange lateral patches, of which the first is the smallest. The thorax underside is clayish reddish cinnamon. The...

  • Macroglossum mitchellii
    Macroglossum mitchellii
    Macroglossum mitchellii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, southern and eastern India, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Macroglossum moecki
    Macroglossum moecki
    Macroglossum moecki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. The type locality is ambiguous insofar as there are two groups of islands which have been referred to as the Schouten Islands. One group is off the north coast of Papua New Guinea, more or less opposite Wewak, while the second, which includes...

  • Macroglossum multifascia
    Macroglossum multifascia
    Macroglossum multifascia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Malaysia and the Philippines.The striped pattern of the forewing distinguishes this species from other Macroglossum species. The upperside is dark chocolate brown. The head and thorax uppersides have a greyish flush...

  • Macroglossum nemesis
    Macroglossum nemesis
    Macroglossum nemesis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.The length of the forewings is 23-24 mm. It is similar to Macroglossum corythus corythus and Macroglossum sylvia, but the forewings are more elongate and have a more variegated and contrasting upperside pattern....

  • Macroglossum neotroglodytus
    Macroglossum neotroglodytus
    Macroglossum neotroglodytus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, southern and north-eastern India, Nepal, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum nigellum
    Macroglossum nigellum
    Macroglossum nigellum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia .-Subspecies:*Macroglossum nigellum nigellum*Macroglossum nigellum integrifasciatum Hogenes & Treadaway, 1996...

  • Macroglossum nubilum
    Macroglossum nubilum
    Macroglossum nubilum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland, Papua New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago.It is similar to Macroglossum prometheus lineata....

  • Macroglossum nycteris
    Macroglossum nycteris
    Macroglossum nycteris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Afghanistan, east around the southern margin of the Himalaya to northern Myanmar, then north-east through China as far as Beijing and Shandong. It is absent from tropical south-east Asia, including lowland south-eastern...

  • Macroglossum pachycerus
    Macroglossum pachycerus
    Macroglossum pachycerus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is similar to Macroglossum aesalon.-References:* Pinhey, E : Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa. Longmans Southern Africa, Cape Town....

  • Macroglossum particolor
    Macroglossum particolor
    Macroglossum particolor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India and Sri Lanka.The upperside of the body and forewing is drab grey. The head and thorax upperside has a russet-brown mesial line. The abdomen has three rather small orange side patches, not separated from each other....

  • Macroglossum passalus
    Macroglossum passalus
    Macroglossum passalus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, south-eastern China, Taiwan, southern Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum phocinum
    Macroglossum phocinum
    Macroglossum phocinum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands.The length of the forewings is about 25 mm. The head and thorax upperside are deep olive green, with a dark mesial stripe. The abdomen upperside is blackish olive, with a pair of black basal spots and...

  • Macroglossum poecilum
    Macroglossum poecilum
    Macroglossum poecilum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Hong Kong, Taiwan, southern Japan and Malaysian northern Borneo ....

  • Macroglossum prometheus
    Macroglossum prometheus
    Macroglossum prometheus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia and Queensland.The wingspan is about 50 mm. There is a prominent, subapical, costal, grey patch on the forewing and a sharply defined distal border on the hindwing. Both wing undersides are brown, shaded...

  • Macroglossum pyrrhosticta
    Macroglossum pyrrhosticta
    The Maile Pilau Hornworm or Hummingbird Hawk Moth is a species of Hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, eastern India, Nepal, Thailand, central and eastern China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, the southern Russian Far East, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia...

  • Macroglossum rectans
    Macroglossum rectans
    Macroglossum rectans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and Australia.It is similar to Macroglossum hirundo errans, but less grey. The abdomen upperside has a small, transverse, yellow lateral mark on second segment and a large one on the third and fourth. The...

  • Macroglossum regulus
    Macroglossum regulus
    Macroglossum regulus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.The upperside of the head, thorax, and first three abdominal segments is greenish. The abdomen upperside has large and confluent orange lateral spots on segments two to seven, the remaining segments are deep brownish...

  • Macroglossum reithi
    Macroglossum reithi
    Macroglossum reithi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Macroglossum saga
    Macroglossum saga
    Macroglossum saga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, southern China, northern Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and northern and western Thailand. The single record from the Russian Far East is of a vagrant....

  • Macroglossum schnitzleri
    Macroglossum schnitzleri
    Macroglossum schnitzleri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Moluccas....

  • Macroglossum semifasciata
    Macroglossum semifasciata
    Macroglossum semifasciata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, south-western China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Macroglossum sitiene
    Macroglossum sitiene
    Macroglossum sitiene is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, eastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan , Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Macroglossum soror
    Macroglossum soror
    Macroglossum soror is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Réunion .It is similar to Macroglossum milvus and Macroglossum alluaudi. There are four large, deep rust-coloured lateral patches on the abdomen that are not separated from one another. The forewing upperside has a discal spot...

  • Macroglossum spilonotum
    Macroglossum spilonotum
    Macroglossum spilonotum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Macroglossum stellatarum
  • Macroglossum stevensi
    Macroglossum stevensi
    Macroglossum stevensi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Macroglossum stigma
    Macroglossum stigma
    Macroglossum stigma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.The length of the forewings is about 26 mm. The head and thorax uppersides have a dark midline. The abdomen upperside has one yellow lateral patch. The underside of the palpus, middle of the thorax and the...

  • Macroglossum sylvia
    Macroglossum sylvia
    Macroglossum sylvia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines....

  • Macroglossum tenebrosa
    Macroglossum tenebrosa
    Macroglossum tenebrosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Aru, Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and north-eastern Australia....

  • Macroglossum tenimberi
    Macroglossum tenimberi
    Macroglossum tenimberi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Tenimber Islands....

  • Macroglossum trochilus
    Macroglossum trochilus
    The African Humming Bird Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is very common in most habitats throughout southern and eastern Africa and in the Comoro Islands.Adults are frequently seen at flowers in full sunshine....

  • Macroglossum ungues
    Macroglossum ungues
    Macroglossum ungues is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia, from Java to Ambon, and also the Philippines and Taiwan....

  • Macroglossum vacillans
    Macroglossum vacillans
    Macroglossum vacillans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Indonesia.Adults are brown with a broad red band across each hindwing....

  • Macroglossum vadenberghiv
  • Macroglossum variegatumv
  • Macroglossum vicinum
    Macroglossum vicinum
    Macroglossum vicinum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern India, southern China and Thailand.The wingspan is 40-48 mm. It is a forest species which is on wing during the rainy season....

  • Macroglossum vidua
    Macroglossum vidua
    Macroglossum vidua is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern Papua New Guinea.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm...


Genus Madoryx
Madoryx
Madoryx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Madoryx bubastus - *Madoryx oiclus - *Madoryx plutonius - *Madoryx pseudothyreus -...

  • Madoryx bubastus
    Madoryx bubastus
    Madoryx bubastus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Central America and South America, includingFrench Guiana and Venezuela south to at least Bolivia and Argentina. It is also present in Mexico....

  • Madoryx oiclus
    Madoryx oiclus
    Madoryx oiclus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Suriname, French Guiana and from Venezuela to Costa Rica. It has also been recorded in Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia.The wingspan is 76-93 mm. Adults are on wing year round....

  • Madoryx plutonius
    Madoryx plutonius
    Madoryx plutonius is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Surinam, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Guatemala. It is probably also present in Panama, Colombia and Guyana. Subspecies dentatus is found in Mexico and Belize.The...

  • Madoryx pseudothyreus
    Madoryx pseudothyreus
    The False-windowed sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the tip of Florida down to Cuba and the surrounding West Indies....


Genus Neogurelca
Neogurelca
Neogurelca is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Neogurelca himachala - *Neogurelca hyas - *Neogurelca masuriensis - *Neogurelca montana -...

  • Neogurelca himachala
    Neogurelca himachala
    Neogurelca himachala is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, south-western, central and eastern China , northern Thailand, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea and Japan....

  • Neogurelca hyas
    Neogurelca hyas
    Neogurelca hyas is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India, Nepal, Myanmar, central and southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines....

  • Neogurelca masuriensis
    Neogurelca masuriensis
    Neogurelca masuriensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-western India along the southern Himalaya of northern India.The wingspan is 42-50 mm.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Leptodermis lanceolata....

  • Neogurelca montana
    Neogurelca montana
    Neogurelca montana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from central and south-western China.The wingspan is about 44 mm. Adults are on wing from July to October.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Paederia tomentosa....

  • Neogurelca mulleri
    Neogurelca mulleri
    Neogurelca mulleri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico....

  • Neogurelca sonorensis
    Neogurelca sonorensis
    Neogurelca sonorensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico....


Genus Nephele
Nephele
In Greek mythology, Nephele was a cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.Greek myth also has it that Nephele is the cloud whom Zeus created in the image of Hera to trick Ixion to test his integrity after displaying his lust for Hera during a feast as a guest of Zeus...

  • Nephele accentifera
    Nephele accentifera
    Nephele accentifera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is common in most habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, excluding Madagascar and the Cape Peninsula....

  • Nephele aequivalens
    Nephele aequivalens
    Nephele aequivalens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests up to 5,000 feet and heavy woodland throughout tropical Africa....

  • Nephele argentifera
    Nephele argentifera
    Nephele argentifera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from coastal bush and savanna from Somalia to northern South Africa.The length of the forewings is 32-35 mm and the wingspan is 78-85 mm. The black lateral spots of the abdomen are large and well defined. The ground colour of the...

  • Nephele bipartita
    Nephele bipartita
    Nephele bipartita is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forest and heavy woodland from West Africa to the coast of Kenya and Tanzania and to Malawi and Mozambique.The length of the forewings is 34-38 mm...

  • Nephele comma
    Nephele comma
    Nephele comma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is very common throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar.The length of the forewings is 32-39 mm and the wingspan is 76-86 mm. It is a very variable species. The body and forewings are dark olive green to reddish-brown and to light...

  • Nephele comoroana
    Nephele comoroana
    Nephele comoroana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Comoro Islands.The wingspan is 50-70 mm for males and 74-78 mm for females. It is similar to Nephele accentifera and Nephele densoi but smaller. The forewing upperside is more uniformly brown...

  • Nephele densoi
    Nephele densoi
    Nephele densoi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.The wingspan is 70–82 mm for males and 77–86 mm for females. The abdomen upperside has black patches. The forewing upperside has bands that are more conspicuous than in similar Nephele oenopion...

  • Nephele discifera
    Nephele discifera
    Nephele discifera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Liberia and Ghana to Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is 32-36 mm. It is very similar to Nephele comma, but always very dark olive brown, all abdominal segments are marked laterally with a minute black...

  • Nephele funebris
    Nephele funebris
    Nephele funebris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is very common throughout most of the Ethiopian Region, excluding Madagascar and the Congo-Cameroonequatorial forest belt, where it is replaced by Nephele maculosa....

  • Nephele hespera
    Nephele hespera
    Nephele hespera is a sphingid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Burma Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia....

  • Nephele joiceyi
    Nephele joiceyi
    Nephele joiceyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia .The length of the forewings is 44 mm. It is very similar to Nephele hespera but much larger. The abdomen upperside has lateral black patches. The forewing underside has postmedian and submarginal lines converging. The...

  • Nephele lannini
    Nephele lannini
    Nephele lannini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forests in Zimbabwe, Malawi and southern Tanzania.The length of the forewings is 31-33 mm. The head, thorax and forewings are very dark olive brown...

  • Nephele leighi
    Nephele leighi
    Nephele leighi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Seychelles.The length of the forewings is about 41 mm. The upperside ground colour of the body and wings is ochre-brown. The forewing upperside is basally greenish-ochre posteriorly. The transverse bands are conspicuous and the...

  • Nephele maculosa
    Nephele maculosa
    Nephele maculosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is only known from the Congo-Cameroon equatorial forest belt.It is a very similar to Nephele funebris, but larger and more variegated....

  • Nephele monostigma
    Nephele monostigma
    Nephele monostigma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forests in the Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya.The length of the forewings is 30-32 mm. It is very similar to Nephele lannini, but slightly smaller, the wings are narrower and the forewings are more mottled with ochreous...

  • Nephele oenopion
    Nephele oenopion
    Nephele oenopion is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Africa.The length of the forewings is 38-40 mm. The abdomen upperside has black patches. The forewing upperside has a small white basal dot. The basal band is irregular, olive-green to mid-green, edged with white basally and...

  • Nephele peneus
    Nephele peneus
    Nephele peneus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests and woodland from Senegal to East Africa, Angola and Delagoa Bay....

  • Nephele rectangulata
    Nephele rectangulata
    Nephele rectangulata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is 36-40 mm. There is a complete series of large lateral black spots on the abdomen. The ground colour of the thorax and forewings is rich olive-brown...

  • Nephele rosae
    Nephele rosae
    Nephele rosae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Africa.The length of the forewings is 40-45 mm. It is very similar to Nephele oenopion, but larger and the subbasal band is wider and without white edges. The stigma is present in the form of a small white comma. The postmedial band...

  • Nephele subvaria
    Nephele subvaria
    Nephele subvaria is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland and Western Australia.The wingspan is about 60 mm. The forewings are brown and the hindwings may be either brown or red. The forewings of the females have white spots which are lacking in the males.The larvae feed on...

  • Nephele vau
    Nephele vau
    Nephele vau is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is common throughout most of Africa south of the Sahara, but rarer in southern Africa....

  • Nephele xylina
    Nephele xylina
    Nephele xylina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from semi-deserts from Kenya to Ethiopia and Somalia.The length of the forewings is 30-33 mm. The antennae of the male are thicker than in other species of the Nephele genus. The body and forewings are pale greyish olive to pale...


Genus Nyceryx
Nyceryx
Nyceryx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Nyceryx alophus - *Nyceryx brevis - Becker, 2001*Nyceryx coffaeae - *Nyceryx continua - *Nyceryx draudti - Gehlen 1926...

  • Nyceryx alophus
    Nyceryx alophus
    Nyceryx alophus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil to Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.The wingspan is about 54 mm. It is similar to Nyceryx continua continua, but the forewing upperside is more variegated because the lines are more distinct. The discal spot is...

  • Nyceryx coffaeae
    Nyceryx coffaeae
    Nyceryx coffaeae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Costa Rica into South America, where it is known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.The wingspan is 68-69 mm...

  • Nyceryx continua
    Nyceryx continua
    Nyceryx continua is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.The wingspan is 56-72 mm. There are no or faint lines in the basal costal area of the forewing upperside. The antemedian band is filled with black and is very oblique. The discal spot is rather...

  • Nyceryx draudti
    Nyceryx draudti
    Nyceryx draudti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru.The wingspan is about 67 mm. It is very similar to Nyceryx stuarti.Adults are probably on wing year round....

  • Nyceryx ericea
    Nyceryx ericea
    Nyceryx ericea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Panama, Guatemala and Costa Rica to Brazil and Bolivia.It can be distinguished from all other Nyceryx species by the semitransparent spots in the distal half of the forewing and the tornal area of the hindwing, as well as the...

  • Nyceryx eximia
    Nyceryx eximia
    Nyceryx eximia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico , as well as Ecuador.The length of the forewings is 22-27.5 mm...

  • Nyceryx fernandezi
    Nyceryx fernandezi
    Nyceryx fernandezi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela.The length of the forewings is 28-31 mm. The hindwing underside has a yellow anal area. The forewing underside has a basally well-delimited distal area comprising a greyish submarginal band preceded by a dark brown...

  • Nyceryx furtadoi
    Nyceryx furtadoi
    Nyceryx furtadoi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It is possibly also found in Argentina.The wingspan is about 60 mm...

  • Nyceryx hyposticta
    Nyceryx hyposticta
    Nyceryx hyposticta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.It is the largest species in the Nyceryx genus and can be distinguished by the semitransparent spots in the distal half of the forewing and the pink hindwing upperside with three...

  • Nyceryx lunaris
    Nyceryx lunaris
    Nyceryx lunaris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador.It can be distinguished from other Nyceryx species by the semitransparent spots in the distal half of the forewing and middle of the hindwing, and the salmon-pink basal area of the hindwing upperside.Adults are probably on...

  • Nyceryx magna
    Nyceryx magna
    Nyceryx magna is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Costa Rica and Ecuador.It can be distinguished from other Nyceryx species by the dark forewing upperside and the brownish-orange basal area and pale purple bands in the tornal angle of the hindwing upperside.Adults are on...

  • Nyceryx maxwelli
    Nyceryx maxwelli
    Nyceryx maxwelli is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia and Venezuela.The wingspan is about 63 mm. It is similar to Nyceryx continua cratera but the apex of the hindwing upperside is brown and the tornal area is not yellow. The basal area of the hindwing upperside is yellow,...

  • Nyceryx nephus
    Nyceryx nephus
    Nyceryx nephus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.The forewing and hindwing upperside is similar to Nyceryx alophus alophus, but the marginal band on the hindwing upperside is broader and has traces of brown spots....

  • Nyceryx nictitans
    Nyceryx nictitans
    Nyceryx nictitans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil to Argentina and in Peru and Bolivia. It can be distinguished from other Nyceryx species by the hindwing upperside, which has an orange base, a dark brown marginal band of even width and the lack of semitransparent spots...

  • Nyceryx riscus
    Nyceryx riscus
    Nyceryx riscus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Belize and Mexico to Costa Rica and further south to Bolivia and Argentina.The wingspan is 50-58 mm. It is similar to Nyceryx stuarti but smaller and paler...

  • Nyceryx stuarti
    Nyceryx stuarti
    Nyceryx stuarti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Costa Rica and Peru to Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.The wingspan is about 66 mm...

  • Nyceryx tacita
    Nyceryx tacita
    Nyceryx tacita is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama to Bolivia.It is similar to Nyceryx eximia eximia but can be distinguished by the less extensive basal yellow area of the hindwing upperside and details of the pattern of the forewing...


Genus Pachygonidia
Pachygonidia
Pachygonidia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Pachygonidia caliginosa - *Pachygonidia drucei - *Pachygonidia hopfferi -...

  • Pachygonidia caliginosa
    Pachygonidia caliginosa
    Pachygonidia caliginosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela.The wingspan is about 70 mm. The forewings are similar to those of Pachygonidia subhamata, but the apex is pointed...

  • Pachygonidia drucei
    Pachygonidia drucei
    Pachygonidia drucei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Panama and Costa Rica north to Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.The wingspan is 72-82 mm. The forewings are similar to those of Pachygonidia hopfferi, but the apex is pointed...

  • Pachygonidia hopfferi
    Pachygonidia hopfferi
    Pachygonidia hopfferi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama and Costa Rica and has been recorded as far south as Bolivia....

  • Pachygonidia martini
    Pachygonidia martini
    Pachygonidia martini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Central America and South America. It has been recorded as far south as Bolivia and Peru....

  • Pachygonidia mielkei
    Pachygonidia mielkei
    Pachygonidia mielkei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil.The length of the forewings is 32-35 mm for males and 35-37 mm for females. There is a distinct grey-brown submarginal patch on the forewing upperside and there are two median transverse pinkish-buff bands on the...

  • Pachygonidia ribbei
    Pachygonidia ribbei
    Pachygonidia ribbei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru, Panama and Costa Rica.The wingspan is 56-62 mm. It can be distinguished from all other Pachygonidia species by the lack of distinct pale bands on the hindwing upperside...

  • Pachygonidia subhamata
    Pachygonidia subhamata
    Pachygonidia subhamata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador north through Central America to Mexico.The wingspan is 62-75 mm...


Genus Pachylia
Pachylia
Pachylia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Pachylia darceta - Druce 1881*Pachylia ficus - *Pachylia syces -...

  • Pachylia darceta
    Pachylia darceta
    Pachylia darceta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia.There are three oblique black lines on the forewing upperside and two in the basal half of the wing. The hindwing upperside is uniform brown without markings.There are probably...

  • Pachylia ficus
    Pachylia ficus
    Pachylia ficus, known as the Fig sphinx, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from the northern tip of South America in Uruguay through Central America to the southern tip of the United States straying into Arizona and Texas....

  • Pachylia syces
    Pachylia syces
    Pachylia syces is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico through Belize and Honduras to Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. It is also found on Jamaica....


Genus Perigonia
Perigonia
Perigonia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Perigonia caryae - Cadiou & Rawlins 1998*Perigonia divisa - Grote 1865*Perigonia glaucescens - Walker 1856*Perigonia grisea - Rothschild & Jordan 1903...

  • Perigonia caryae
    Perigonia caryae
    Perigonia caryae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Dominican Republic.It is the only species in the Perigonia genus with a banded forewing pattern consisting of alternating pale and dark brown areas, in combination with a semicircular submarginal area that is paler than the...

  • Perigonia divisa
    Perigonia divisa
    Perigonia divisa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba.It can be distinguished from all other Perigonia species by the pale grey longitudinal stripe along the upperside of the abdomen. There is a narrow, pale, straight antemedian band and a similar but more oblique postmedian...

  • Perigonia glaucescens
    Perigonia glaucescens
    Perigonia glaucescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Dominican Republic and Haiti.It can be distinguished from all other Perigonia species by the olive-green head and thorax, characteristic forewing upperside pattern and the broad white or cream band across the upperside...

  • Perigonia grisea
    Perigonia grisea
    Perigonia grisea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia.It can be distinguished from all other Perigonia species by the uniform grey forewing upperside crossed by narrow, dark brown transverse lines. The hindwing upperside is most similar to Perigonia stulta but the yellow...

  • Perigonia ilus
    Perigonia ilus
    Perigonia ilus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay....

  • Perigonia jamaicensis
    Perigonia jamaicensis
    Perigonia jamaicensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives in Jamaica.It is similar to Perigonia lusca lusca but distinguishable by the large, diffuse yellow patch on the basal half of the forewing underside, posterior to the discal cell....

  • Perigonia lefebvraei
    Perigonia lefebvraei
    Perigonia lefebvraei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba and the Dominican Republic.It is similar to Perigonia lusca lusca, but smaller and the forewing upperside antemedian band is vestigial or absent and the posterior half of the hindwing upperside is more uniformly...

  • Perigonia leucopus
    Perigonia leucopus
    Perigonia leucopus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.The forewing upperside similar to Perigonia stulta, but the base and postmedian area are shaded with grey and there is a conspicuous lunate patch on the outer margin. There is a brown marginal band on the hindwing...

  • Perigonia lusca
    Perigonia lusca
    The Half-Blind Sphinx or Coffee Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It found from the northern tip of South America, through most of Central America, and up to Florida in the United States....

  • Perigonia manni
    Perigonia manni
    Perigonia manni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Haiti.The length of the forewings is about 24 mm. It is similar to Perigonia lefebvraei, but the upperside is generally grey, the forewing apex and tornus are more produced and the distal margin is more distinctly convex....

  • Perigonia pallida
    Perigonia pallida
    Perigonia pallida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.It is similar to Perigonia stulta, but generally paler and the forewings are narrower...

  • Perigonia passerina
    Perigonia passerina
    Perigonia passerina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.It is similar to Perigonia lusca lusca, but the median part of the forewing outer margin is more convex. The forewing upperside ground colour is more grey...

  • Perigonia pittieri
    Perigonia pittieri
    Perigonia pittieri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, French Guiana and Brazil.The length of the forewings is 24-27 mm for males and about 29 mm for females. It is similar to Perigonia stulta but the forewing outer margin is more evenly curved and the apex is obtuse...

  • Perigonia stulta
    Perigonia stulta
    Perigonia stulta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from tropical America.The wingspan is 50-55 mm. Adults are on wing year round....

  • Perigonia thayeri
    Perigonia thayeri
    Perigonia thayeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Saint Vincent.The length of the forewings is about 32 mm. It is similar to Perigonia pallida, but the forewing apex and tornus are less acute and the distal margin is less convex medially...


Genus Proserpinus
Proserpinus
Proserpinus is a genus of moth in the Sphingidae family.It contains the following species:* Proserpinus clarkiae * Proserpinus flavofasciata Walker, 1856* Proserpinus gaurae...

  • Proserpinus clarkiae
    Proserpinus clarkiae
    Clark's Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from British Columbia and Washington south through California to Baja California, east to Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. The habitat consists of oak woodland and pine-oak woodland in foothills.The wingspan is 30-38 mm. The forewing underside...

  • Proserpinus flavofasciata
    Proserpinus flavofasciata
    The Yellow-banded Day Sphinx is a species of hawk moth which occurs at the edges of, and in clearings in, boreal and mountain forests across Canada, as far south as Maine and Massachusetts in the east and as far north as Alaska in the west...

  • Proserpinus gaurae
    Proserpinus gaurae
    The Proud Sphinx Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Texas and Louisiana east to northern Florida, north to Alabama, Missouri, northern Georgia and South Carolina. It may range as far south as northern Mexico....

  • Proserpinus juanita
    Proserpinus juanita
    The Juanita Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from North Dakota south to Arizona and east to Missouri and Texas.The wingspan is 45-64 mm....

  • Proserpinus proserpina
  • Proserpinus terlooii
  • Proserpinus vega
    Proserpinus vega
    The Vega Sphinx Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from southern Arizona, New Mexico and Texas south into Mexico....


Genus Rethera
Rethera
Rethera is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Rethera afghanistana - Daniel 1958*Rethera amseli - Daniel 1958*Rethera brandti - O Bang-haas 1937*Rethera komarovi -...

  • Rethera afghanistana
    Rethera afghanistana
    The Afghan Madder Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from most of Afghanistan and western Pakistan. It is probably also found in central Iran....

  • Rethera amseli
    Rethera amseli
    Amsels' Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from western Afghanistan.The wingspan is 34-43 mm. It is similar to Rethera brandti, but larger and with paler markings....

  • Rethera brandti
    Rethera brandti
    The Lesser Madder Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-eastern Turkey and north-eastern Iraq to southern Iran along the Zagros Mountains and then into western Pakistan. It is also present in the Alborz and Kopet Dag Mountains of northern Iran. The habitat of ssp...

  • Rethera komarovi
    Rethera komarovi
    Rethera komarovi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in south-western Europe, Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Iran and Iraq.The wingspan is 55-65 mm for ssp. komarovi and 65-81 mm for ssp. manifica...


Genus Rhagastis
Rhagastis
Rhagastis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Rhagastis acuta - *Rhagastis albomarginatus - *Rhagastis binoculata - Matsumura 1909*Rhagastis castor -...

  • Rhagastis acuta
    Rhagastis acuta
    Rhagastis acuta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia, including India, Thailand and Indonesia.It is similar to Rhagastis velata and Rhagastis hayesi. The upperside of the abdomen has a pair of vestigial or well-developed lateral golden stripes. The forewing upperside...

  • Rhagastis albomarginatus
    Rhagastis albomarginatus
    Rhagastis albomarginatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Himalaya, China, Taiwan, Burma, Sumatra, Java and Borneo....

  • Rhagastis binoculata
    Rhagastis binoculata
    Rhagastis binoculata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Taiwan.The wingspan is 54-63 mm. It is very similar to Rhagastis albomarginatus dichroae and distinguishable only by the pinkish-grey oval patch across the postmedian lines on the forewing upperside...

  • Rhagastis castor
    Rhagastis castor
    Rhagastis castor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, Thailand, southern China and Vietnam, Sumatra, Java and Taiwan....

  • Rhagastis confusa
    Rhagastis confusa
    Rhagastis confusa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern India, Nepal, northern Thailand, south-western China and northern Vietnam.The wingspan is 84-90 mm...

  • Rhagastis gloriosa
    Rhagastis gloriosa
    Rhagastis gloriosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found along the southern slopes of the Himalaya in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, north-eastern India and northern Myanmar, east to central Yunnan in China. It has also been recorded from the extreme northwest of Thailand and northern Vietnam.The...

  • Rhagastis hayesi
    Rhagastis hayesi
    Rhagastis hayesi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia, including Burma, Vietnam and Thailand.It is similar to Rhagastis acuta but can be distinguished by the lateral pattern of the abdomen, the forewing upperside ground colour which is always darker olive-brown and...

  • Rhagastis lambertoni
    Rhagastis lambertoni
    Rhagastis lambertoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The length of the forewings is 22-30 mm. It can be distinguished from all other Rhagastis species by the strongly convex outer margin and markedly falcate apex of the forewing....

  • Rhagastis lunata
    Rhagastis lunata
    Rhagastis lunata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, Thailand, south-western China and Vietnam.The wingspan is 72-86 mm...

  • Rhagastis mongoliana
    Rhagastis mongoliana
    Rhagastis mongoliana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from China, north to Mongolia, Korea and the Primorsky Krai in Russia, and east to Taiwan and Japan.The wingspan is 47-63 mm...

  • Rhagastis olivacea
    Rhagastis olivacea
    Rhagastis olivacea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-western India across Nepal, northern Myanmar, northern Thailand and southern China to northern Vietnam.The wingspan is 72-92 mm...

  • Rhagastis rubetra
    Rhagastis rubetra
    Rhagastis rubetra is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia north through Malaysia to Thailand and possibly southern China ....

  • Rhagastis trilineata
    Rhagastis trilineata
    Rhagastis trilineata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Japan.It is similar to Rhagastis mongoliana but distinguishable by the almost uniform forewing fringes and the small black discal spot on the hindwing underside...

  • Rhagastis velata
    Rhagastis velata
    Rhagastis velata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, Thailand, central and southern China and Taiwan....


Genus Sphingonaepiopsis
Sphingonaepiopsis
Sphingonaepiopsis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei - *Sphingonaepiopsis gorgoniades - *Sphingonaepiopsis kuldjaensis -...

  • Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei
    Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei
    Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Open habitats from northern South Africa to East Africa in the east and to Angola in the west....

  • Sphingonaepiopsis gorgoniades
    Sphingonaepiopsis gorgoniades
    The Gorgon Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Croatia, Albania, Macedonia, central and southern Greece, eastern Bulgaria and Romania across southern Ukraine and the Crimea, southern Russia as far north as Kazan, the southern Urals and eastern Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan and...

  • Sphingonaepiopsis kuldjaensis
    Sphingonaepiopsis kuldjaensis
    The Kuldja Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in eastern Kazakhstan, western Xinjiang Province in China, eastern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and eastern Afghanistan.The wingspan is 30-34 mm...

  • Sphingonaepiopsis malgassica
    Sphingonaepiopsis malgassica
    Sphingonaepiopsis malgassica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The basal half of the forewing upperside is brown. There is a dark triangular area with its base on the outer margin near the hind angle and a similar triangle with its base on the costal margin. The apical...

  • Sphingonaepiopsis nana
    Sphingonaepiopsis nana
    The Savanna Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the Kerman Province, Hormozgan Province and Baluchistan in southern Iran and western Saudi Arabia to the southern Arabian Peninsula and eastern Africa to Natal, west to Gambia.The wingspan is 25-30 mm...

  • Sphingonaepiopsis obscurus
    Sphingonaepiopsis obscurus
    Sphingonaepiopsis obscurus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Sphingonaepiopsis pumilio
    Sphingonaepiopsis pumilio
    Sphingonaepiopsis pumilio is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Uttar Pradesh in India, east through Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma to China , south to Peninsular Malaysia through Vietnam and Thailand....


Genus Temnora
Temnora
Temnora is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Temnora albilinea - Rothschild 1904*Temnora angulosa - Rothschile & Jordan 1906*Temnora argyropeza - *Temnora atrofasciata -...

  • Temnora albilinea
    Temnora albilinea
    Temnora albilinea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Cameroon to Angola, Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania....

  • Temnora angulosa
    Temnora angulosa
    Temnora angulosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nigeria to Congo.The length of the forewings is about 32 mm. It is an unmistakeable species. The forewing outer margin is straight except for a bluntly triangular projection...

  • Temnora argyropeza
    Temnora argyropeza
    Temnora argyropeza is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is very similar to Temnora marginata marginata, but the forewing upperside is lacking the pale oblique line. The hindwing upperside is entirely dark orange-brown, lacking a brown marginal band but thinly edged...

  • Temnora atrofasciata
    Temnora atrofasciata
    Temnora atrofasciata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Forests from western Africa to Congo and Uganda, with an apparently isolated population in the Usambara Mountains....

  • Temnora avinoffi
    Temnora avinoffi
    Temnora avinoffi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nigeria to Cameroon and Gabon.The forewing upperside pattern is in general similar to Temnora subapicalis subapicalis in that the ground colour is dark brown and the straight oblique line runs from the middle of the costa and is...

  • Temnora burdoni
    Temnora burdoni
    Temnora burdoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanzania.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm. It is similar to Temnora argyropeza, but the antennae are longer and thicker, the forewings shorter and the hindwing upperside has a diffuse brown marginal band through which...

  • Temnora camerounensis
    Temnora camerounensis
    Temnora camerounensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Nigeria....

  • Temnora crenulata
    Temnora crenulata
    Temnora crenulata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya, with an isolated population in the Usambara Mountains of north-eastern Tanzania....

  • Temnora curtula
    Temnora curtula
    Temnora curtula is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests in Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.The length of the forewings is 17-21 mm. The upperside of the head, thorax and abdomen is slate-grey, with a blackish-brown medial crest on the head and thorax...

  • Temnora dierli
    Temnora dierli
    Temnora dierli is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanzania.The length of the forewings is about 18 mm. The antenna extremely long, much exceeding the discal spot. This is the longest antenna relative to forewing length of any Temnora species. The forewing are relatively short....

  • Temnora elegans
    Temnora elegans
    Temnora elegans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from western Africa and in savanna from Angola to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and East Africa.The length of the forewings is 18-21 mm...

  • Temnora elisabethae
    Temnora elisabethae
    Temnora elisabethae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Congo to Uganda.The length of the forewings is 21-24 mm. The forewings, head and body are dark grey. The forewings have a large dark brown triangular spot at the middle of the costa. There is a smaller dark brown...

  • Temnora engis
    Temnora engis
    Temnora engis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is similar to Temnora murina, but the forewing upperside lacks the subapical dark spot on the outer margin, instead there is a small rounded spot set some way back from the outer margin. Also, the inner edge of the...

  • Temnora eranga
    Temnora eranga
    Temnora eranga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo and Uganda and western Kenya.The length of the forewings is 16-18 mm. It is similar to Temnora scitula, but distinguishable by the more variegated pattern, the lack of a postmedian translucent...

  • Temnora fumosa
    Temnora fumosa
    Temnora fumosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in most habitats throughout Africa south of the Sahara.The length of the forewings is 22-28 mm. The forewings are olive brown to dark olive brown, with several oblique darker bands, which are less visible in dark specimens. The apical...

  • Temnora funebris
    Temnora funebris
    Temnora funebris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Forests from West Africa to Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.The length of the forewings is 23-29 mm. It is very similar to Temnora marginata, but larger, the wings are longer and narrower and the termen of the forewings is...

  • Temnora grandidieri
    Temnora grandidieri
    Temnora grandidieri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is very similar to Temnora murina, but distinguishable by the dark brown base of the hindwing upperside....

  • Temnora griseata
    Temnora griseata
    Temnora griseata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Nigeria to southern Congo, southern Tanzania and Malawi....

  • Temnora hollandi
    Temnora hollandi
    Temnora hollandi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Nigeria to Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is about 27 mm, making it the largest Temnora species. It is similar to Temnora wollastoni, but much larger and the forewing outer margin is less crenulated...

  • Temnora iapygoides
    Temnora iapygoides
    Temnora iapygoides is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo and Uganda, as well as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and from Tanzania to the Kenya coast....

  • Temnora inornatum
    Temnora inornatum
    Temnora inornatum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa.The length of the forewings is about 26 mm. It is similar to Temnora nitida, but the broad oblique band on the forewing upperside is narrowed and angled. The forewing upperside has an oblique brown band...

  • Temnora leighi
    Temnora leighi
    Temnora leighi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Comoro Islands.The forewing upperside is similar to Temnora fumosa fumosa, but the ground colour is pale grey, especially in the costal half of the wing. The pale grey triangular patch is diffused into a broad pale grey patch...

  • Temnora livida
    Temnora livida
    Temnora livida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Gambia to Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is 29-34 mm, making it the largest species of the Temnora genus. The head and body are grey, with a dark median line running from the vertex to the base of the...

  • Temnora marginata
    Temnora marginata
    Temnora marginata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Savanna and woodland in eastern and southern Africa.The length of the forewings is 21–23 mm. The forewing outer margin is even, excavate below the apex and above the tornus and convex between. The forewing upperside ground...

  • Temnora mirabilis
    Temnora mirabilis
    Temnora mirabilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Kenya and Rwanda.The length of the forewings is about 27 mm. The forewing upperside ground colour is very dark brown or black with veins highlighted creamy-white. The antemedian and postmedian lines are also creamy-white and run...

  • Temnora murina
    Temnora murina
    Temnora murina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa.The forewing outer margin is evenly convex and only very slightly excavated below apex and above the tornus. The forewing upperside ground colour is pale greyish-brown...

  • Temnora namaqua
    Temnora namaqua
    Temnora namaqua is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa to Tanzania.It is similar to Temnora nitida, but the oblique band is replaced by a dark brown triangular patch on the costa that is basally edged with a pale coloration...

  • Temnora natalis
    Temnora natalis
    Temnora natalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from bush and savanna from South Africa to Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania.The length of the forewings is 22-24 mm...

  • Temnora nitida
    Temnora nitida
    Temnora nitida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The length of the forewings is about 26 mm. It is similar to Temnora murina, but the forewing is more excavated below the apex and above the tornus and the forewing upperside has a broad olive-brown band of equal width...

  • Temnora ntombi
    Temnora ntombi
    Temnora ntombi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Ivory Coast to Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.The wingspan is 43-48 mm. The upperside of the head, thorax and abdomen is grey with a tint of brown. The underside of the body is yellowish grey and lighter than the...

  • Temnora palpalis
    Temnora palpalis
    Temnora palpalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.It is similar to Temnora crenulata crenulata, but the upperside ground colour is more brownish. The forewing apex is rounded and the outer margin is convex apically and crenulated towards the tornus...

  • Temnora peckoveri
    Temnora peckoveri
    Temnora peckoveri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The forewing upperside is very similar to Temnora fumosa fumosa, but the ground colour is darker brown so that the dark antemedian and postmedian bands are not as conspicuous. The hindwing underside ground colour is...

  • Temnora plagiata
    Temnora plagiata
    Temnora plagiata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Africa.The length of the forewings is 21-23 mm. The forewing outer margin is bisinuate, strongly convex in the middle and feebly denticulate. The underside of the abdomen has two series of brown dots...

  • Temnora pseudopylas
    Temnora pseudopylas
    Temnora pseudopylas is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is very common in eastern and southern Africa, but absent in very dry habitats....

  • Temnora pylades
    Temnora pylades
    Temnora pylades is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.The forewing are similar to Temnora pylas pylas, but the apex is more acutely pointed and the tornus is more produced backwards. The hindwing costa is slightly dilated basally...

  • Temnora pylas
    Temnora pylas
    Temnora pylas is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.The forewing upperside ground colour is pale brown, with darker brown transverse bands and other markings. The basal band is dark brown and the subbasal band consists of two dark brown lines separated by...

  • Temnora radiata
    Temnora radiata
    Temnora radiata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from West Africa to Angola.It is similar to Temnora mirabilis, but lacks the continuous, evenly curved pale postmedian line on the forewing upperside....

  • Temnora rattrayi
    Temnora rattrayi
    Temnora rattrayi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests in Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is about 16 mm for males and 17-21 mm for females. The upperside of the head, thorax and abdomen are olive-brown with a blackish brown medial line on the head and thorax....

  • Temnora reutlingeri
    Temnora reutlingeri
    Temnora reutlingeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nigeria to Gabon.It is similar to Temnora griseata ugandae and shows the same dimorphism in forewing upperside pattern, but it differs in forewing upperside ground colour, which is brownish, and in characters of the...

  • Temnora robertsoni
    Temnora robertsoni
    Temnora robertsoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanzania and Mozambique.The length of the forewings is about 23 mm. It is similar to the form of Temnora griseata griseata with the oblique line running from the costa, but immediately distinguishable by the conspicuous dark...

  • Temnora sardanus
    Temnora sardanus
    Temnora sardanus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests and heavy woodland from Sierra Leone to Congo and Angola, then to Zimbabwe and East Africa....

  • Temnora scheveni
    Temnora scheveni
    Temnora scheveni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.The length of the forewings is 22-23 mm. It is similar to Temnora pseudopylas pseudopylas but larger and very much darker...

  • Temnora scitula
    Temnora scitula
    Temnora scitula is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Gambia to Congo, Angola and Uganda. There is an isolated population in eastern Tanzania.The length of the forewings is 19-23 mm...

  • Temnora spiritus
    Temnora spiritus
    Temnora spiritus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.The length of the forewings is 19-20 mm. It is similar in shape and markings to Temnora plagiata plagiata but much paler overall, dark buff to creamy buff. The forewing...

  • Temnora stevensi
    Temnora stevensi
    Temnora stevensi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from forests from Sierra Leone to the southern Congo.It is similar to Temnora funebris but smaller and the forewing upperside pattern is less contrasted....

  • Temnora subapicalis
    Temnora subapicalis
    Temnora subapicalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forest in central Kenya and also in Zimbabwe.The length of the forewings is about 24 mm for males and 26 mm for females...

  • Temnora swynnertoni
    Temnora swynnertoni
    Temnora swynnertoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in eastern Zimbabwe.The wingspan is 34-37 mm. It is similar to Temnora plagiata fuscata but the forewing outer margin is only slightly crenulated...

  • Temnora trapezoidea
    Temnora trapezoidea
    Temnora trapezoidea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Nigeria to Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm. It is similar to Temnora plagiata fuscata, but the costal trapezoidal patch has a distal edge roughly parallel to the outer margin giving a...

  • Temnora turlini
    Temnora turlini
    Temnora turlini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Rwanda.The wingspan is 50-52 mm. It is immediately distinguishable from all other Temnora species by the narrow diffuse pinkish-white band running from a point on the costa almost perpendicularly to the tornus...

  • Temnora wollastoni
    Temnora wollastoni
    Temnora wollastoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Liberia, east to the Central African Republic and then south to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm...

  • Temnora zantus
    Temnora zantus
    Temnora zantus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests in Congo and Uganda.It is superficially similar to Temnora atrofasciata, but the forewing outer margin is crenulated and the forewing upperside has a pale apical area separated from the dark brown median area by a distinct...


Genus Theretra
Theretra
Theretra is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Theretra acuta - Vaglia & Liyous, 2010*Theretra alecto - *Theretra alorica - Eitschberger, 2010*Theretra arfakmontensis - Eitschberger, 2010...

  • Theretra radiosa
    Theretra radiosa
    Theretra radiosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and Queensland.Adults have brown wings with a darker submarginal band, and a dark dot near the centre of the costa of each forewing....

  • Theretra alecto
    Theretra alecto
    Theretra alecto, known as the Levant Hawk Moth, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the Indomalaya ecozone and warm parts of the Palearctic ecozone, including extreme south-eastern Europe.The wingspan is 75-106 mm....

  • Theretra boisduvalii
    Theretra boisduvalii
    Theretra boisduvalii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-eastern Iran, east to Sri Lanka and through the highlands of the Himalaya to south-east Asia and Borneo. They sometimes stray into Turkey and Greece....

  • Theretra cajus
    Theretra cajus
    Theretra cajus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.The abdomen upperside has two strong white longitudinal lines, which are fused at the anterior and posterior margins of each segment, giving the appearance of a chain...

  • Theretra capensis
    Theretra capensis
    Theretra capensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from woodland and open habitats from the Cape to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique and East Africa....

  • Theretra castanea
    Theretra castanea
    Theretra castanea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in India.The ground colour of both upperside and underside are very variable, the upperside sometimes more, sometimes less reddish, the underside varying from orange to pale tawny. The hindwing upperside is uniformly dark tawny-olive...

  • Theretra clotho
    Theretra clotho
    Theretra clotho is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Sri Lanka, India , Nepal and Myanmar, east through China to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, and then south-east through South East Asia as far as the Lesser Sunda Islands and Timor in Indonesia...

  • Theretra gnoma
    Theretra gnoma
    Theretra gnoma is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.It is very similar to Theretra clotho clotho, but paler. The hindwing upperside has a pale marginal area which is more extensive than in Theretra clotho clotho, nearly as broad as in Theretra clotho celata....

  • Theretra griseomarginata
    Theretra griseomarginata
    Theretra griseomarginata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.The antenna are long, reaching beyond the apex of the forewing discal cell. The abdomen upperside has a single, narrow longitudinal white line. The forewing upperside has a diagnostic whitish submarginal band that...

  • Theretra incarnata
    Theretra incarnata
    Theretra incarnata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia.The abdomen upperside is lacking a pair of black lateral patches at the base . The forewing upperside is most similar to Theretra clotho clotho but distinguishable by the much stronger dark oblique postmedian line....

  • Theretra indistincta
    Theretra indistincta
    Theretra indistincta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Bismarck Archipelago....

  • Theretra inornata
    Theretra inornata
    Theretra inornata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland.The upperside is uniformly olive-green or brown with a minimum of forewing pattern. The antenna have pinkish white dorsal scaling, with a black apical patch...

  • Theretra insignis
    Theretra insignis
    Theretra insignis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia.It is very similar to Theretra kuehni but larger and the forewings are more pointed. The upperside of the abdomen has two strong white dorsal lines, sometimes partly fused...

  • Theretra insularis
    Theretra insularis
    Theretra insularis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines, north-eastern Borneo, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji.-Subspecies:...

  • Theretra japonica
    Theretra japonica
    Theretra japonica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Japan, China, Korea and Russia.The wingspan is 55-80 mm. The moth flies from May to September depending on the location.The caterpillars feed on a wide range of plants...

  • Theretra jugurtha
    Theretra jugurtha
    Theretra jugurtha is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from wooded areas in tropical Africa.The length of the forewings is 37-45 mm. The body and forewings are ochreous olive. The hindwings are dark brown, very much like a large version of Hippotion irregularis.The larvae feed on Vitis...

  • Theretra latreillii
    Theretra latreillii
    The Pale Brown Hawk Moth, Theretra latreillii, is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in most of Asia, including Borneo, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan and also in the tropical regions of Australia....

  • Theretra lycetus
    Theretra lycetus
    Theretra lycetus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-east Asia, including Malaysia, Thailand, India and Indonesia....

  • Theretra manilae
    Theretra manilae
    Theretra manilae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The wingspan is 71-75 mm. It resembles a small, deeper green Theretra rhesus but the forewings are shorter and squarer and the outer margin is less convex. The green colour is often replaced by brown, probably as...

  • Theretra mansoni
    Theretra mansoni
    Theretra mansoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.The length of the forewings is about 31 mm. It is very similar to Theretra alecto and is probably no more than a melanic variation of this species. The difference between the two species is the ground colour of the...

  • Theretra margarita
  • Theretra molops
    Theretra molops
    Theretra molops is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.It is intermediate in appearance between Theretra clotho celata and Theretra queenslandi. The abdomen has a pair of basal olive-brown lateral patches that are continued posteriorly as indistinct bands, gradually...

  • Theretra monteironis
    Theretra monteironis
    Theretra monteironis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry habitas from KwaZulu-Natal to eastern Kenya.The length of the forewings is 20-23 mm and the wingspan is 48-62 mm. It is very similar to Theretra perkeo, but the ground colour is pale brown without a trace of pink...

  • Theretra muricolor
    Theretra muricolor
    Theretra muricolor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.It is very similar to Theretra queenslandi but smaller and the forewing ground colour is pale grey. The forewing upperside is as in Theretra queenslandi, but the ground colour is pale silvery-grey....

  • Theretra natashae
    Theretra natashae
    Theretra natashae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia.It is most similar to Theretra incarnata but distinguishable by the white outer margins to the tegulae, the much larger discal spot on the forewing upperside and the pair of black basal patches on the upperside of the...

  • Theretra nessus
    Theretra nessus
    The Yam Hawk Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka, India , Nepal, Burma, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, northern Australia and New Caledonia...

  • Theretra oldenlandiae
  • Theretra orpheus
    Theretra orpheus
    Theretra orpheus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from most of Africa.The length of the forewings is 22-26 mm. The forewings are narrow and long, the termen rounded, espcially in females, the apex is not very acute. The body is dark brown to dark grey, with numerous paler...

  • Theretra pallicosta
    Theretra pallicosta
    Theretra pallicosta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Sri Lanka and India, east through Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Hong Kong and Taiwan and south through Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to Peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia .The wingspan is 70-90 mm...

  • Theretra perkeo
    Theretra perkeo
    Theretra perkeo is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the arid areas north of the equatorial forest belt, from Senegal to northern Uganda....

  • Theretra polistratus
    Theretra polistratus
    Theretra polistratus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea.It is an unmistakable species, characterized by three continuous dark green dorsal lines extending from the anterior edge of the mesothorax to the tip of the abdomen...

  • Theretra queenslandi
    Theretra queenslandi
    Theretra queenslandi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from New South Wales and Queensland.The wingspan is about 60 mm. Adults have light brown forewings with a dark stripe running from the base to the apex. There is a dark dot near the middle of the costa. The hindwings are darker...

  • Theretra radiosa
    Theretra radiosa
    Theretra radiosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and Queensland.Adults have brown wings with a darker submarginal band, and a dark dot near the centre of the costa of each forewing....

  • Theretra rhesus
    Theretra rhesus
    Theretra rhesus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines....

  • Theretra silhetensis
    Theretra silhetensis
    Theretra silhetensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives in Southeast Asia and the East Indies.The wingspan is 60-72 mm.Larvae have been recorded feeding on Colocasia antiquorum and Ludwigia species in southern China, Colocasia esculenta in Japan, Ludwigia repens and Boerhavia species in...

  • Theretra suffusa
    Theretra suffusa
    Theretra suffusa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, Thailand, southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan , Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Andaman Islands, Malaysia , Singapore, Indonesia and Palawan.The wingspan is 80-102 mm...

  • Theretra sugii
    Theretra sugii
    Theretra sugii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The length of the forewings is 40-43 mm. It differs from all other Theretra species in the forewing shape, which is acute apically, concave below the apex on the outer margin and rounded at the tornus, giving a very...

  • Theretra tessmanni
    Theretra tessmanni
    Theretra tessmanni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cameroon and Nigeria.The wingspan is 68-80 mm for males and 80-90 mm for females. It is extremely similar to Theretra jugurtha jugurtha but the ground colour of the upperside of the body and forewings is yellowish- grey with...

  • Theretra tryoni
    Theretra tryoni
    Theretra tryoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea, Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales.The wingspan is about 70 mm. Adults are plain brown, with a few faint dark dots....

  • Theretra turneri
    Theretra turneri
    Theretra turneri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Queensland.The wingspan is about 60 mm. Adults have light brown forewings with a number of dark brown markings. They have plain brown hindwings....

  • Theretra viridis
    Theretra viridis
    Theretra viridis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from São Tomé and Príncipe.The wingspan is about 40 mm. The forewing upperside ground colour is dark green. The fifth postmedian line is strongly developed and dentate on the veins, each vein highlighted by a short pale streak...


Genus Xylophanes
Xylophanes
Xylophanes is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Xylophanes acrus - Rothschild & Jordan 1910*Xylophanes adalia - *Xylophanes aglaor - *Xylophanes alexandrei - Haxaire & Vaglia, 2009...

  • Xylophanes acrus
    Xylophanes acrus
    Xylophanes acrus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras.The wingspan is 72-83 mm, with females being larger than males. It is similar to Xylophanes cyrene but more green....

  • Xylophanes adalia
    Xylophanes adalia
    Xylophanes adalia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama, Costa Rica north to south-eastern Belize and Mexico. In the south, it ranges as far as Ecuador.The wingspan is 55-56 mm. The females are larger than the males...

  • Xylophanes aglaor
    Xylophanes aglaor
    Xylophanes aglaor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil west to Bolivia.It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Xylophanes genus, but a number of differences distinguish it from Xylophanes libya, to which it most closely compares, particularly in its darker...

  • Xylophanes amadis
    Xylophanes amadis
    Xylophanes amadis is large moth of the Family Sphingidae. It is found in Surinam, and westward through Guyana, Venezuela and Bolivia.The wingspan is about 80 mm. The abdomen has no dorsal median line and the subdorsal lines are represented only by small dark green spots on the posterior margins of...

  • Xylophanes anubus
    Xylophanes anubus
    Xylophanes anubus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Surinam, Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and south to Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina....

  • Xylophanes aristor
    Xylophanes aristor
    Xylophanes aristor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Guatemala to Venezuela, Ecuador and probably Colombia.The forewing upperside ground colour and the upperside of the body is olive-green and the forewing underside is orange...

  • Xylophanes belti
    Xylophanes belti
    Xylophanes belti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, Honduras and Guatemala.The wingspan is 90-95 mm. The uppersides of the forewings, head, thorax and abdomen are deep olive green. There is a stripe running from the forewing base to the palp...

  • Xylophanes ceratomioides
    Xylophanes ceratomioides
    Xylophanes ceratomioides is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela, down into southern Brazil. Rare vagrants have been found up to southern Arizona....

  • Xylophanes chiron
    Xylophanes chiron
    Xylophanes chiron is a moth of the Family Sphingidae. It can be found in Mexico down to Northern Argentina and in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Jamaica.The wingspan range is 77-81 mm.The larvae feed on Rubiaceae species.-Subspecies:...

  • Xylophanes clarki
    Xylophanes clarki
    Xylophanes clarki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.The length of the forewings is about 30 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes tersa tersa but distinguishable by the scalloped second to fourth postmedian lines on the forewing upperside...

  • Xylophanes colinae
    Xylophanes colinae
    Xylophanes colinae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador, French Guyana and Venezuela.The wingspan is 72-78 mm. It is intermediate between Xylophanes ceratomioides and Xylophanes guiananesis, but smaller, with more rounded wings and an even more strongly scalloped outer...

  • Xylophanes columbiana
    Xylophanes columbiana
    Xylophanes columbiana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia.The length of the forewings is about 32 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes elara, the thorax and abdomen for instance are identical in colour and pattern. Difference is that the third of the oblique postmedian lines...

  • Xylophanes cosmius
    Xylophanes cosmius
    Xylophanes cosmius is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to western Brazil.The wingspan is 40-45 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes amadis, but the outer margin of the forewing is scalloped and more excavate below the apex...

  • Xylophanes crotonis
    Xylophanes crotonis
    Xylophanes crotonis is a moth of the Family Sphingidae. It is found in Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and south to Bolivia.The wingspan is 91-97 mm. Adults are on wing year round in Costa Rica....

  • Xylophanes cyrene
    Xylophanes cyrene
    Xylophanes cyrene is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize and south to Oxapampa in Peru.The wingspan is 76-91 mm...

  • Xylophanes damocrita
    Xylophanes damocrita
    Xylophanes damocrita is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico.The ground colour of the uppersides of the forewings and body is dark olive green or brown. The tegula is dark olive-green with a median longitudinal dark golden-yellow line. There is another line of the same colour...

  • Xylophanes depuiseti
    Xylophanes depuiseti
    Xylophanes depuiseti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil and is probably also present in Paraguay.It is similar to Xylophanes adalia and Xylophanes ploetzi. The upperside is olive green. The abdomen has two rows of feeble brown dots dorsally...

  • Xylophanes docilis
    Xylophanes docilis
    Xylophanes docilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found throughout much of South America, including Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and Peru....

  • Xylophanes dolius
    Xylophanes dolius
    Xylophanes dolius is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador and Bolivia.The wingspan is about 70 mm for males. Females are larger. It is similar to Xylophanes hydrata in forewing shape but the ground colour is brown and there are differences in pattern. The abdomen is without...

  • Xylophanes elara
    Xylophanes elara
    Xylophanes elara is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil.The upperside of the wings and body are olive-green and the distal margin of the forewing is strongly excavate below the falcate apex, then convex. The dorsal scales of the...

  • Xylophanes epaphus
    Xylophanes epaphus
    Xylophanes epaphus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from French Guiana possibly as far south asArgentina.It is somewhat similar to Xylophanes obscurus but generally paler and with a pinkish tint overall. The forewings are shorter and broader and less excavate below the apex...

  • Xylophanes eumedon
    Xylophanes eumedon
    Xylophanes eumedon is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico.It is similar to Xylophanes aristor but smaller and the forewing pattern is much more contrasted. It is distinguishable from most related species by the partial fusion and apical pinkish flush of the pale yellow spots of...

  • Xylophanes falco
    Xylophanes falco
    Xylophanes falco is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Honduras and Guatemala north through Mexico to southern Arizona and western Texas. It is generally found in oak woodland and along streamsides....

  • Xylophanes fernandezi
    Xylophanes fernandezi
    Xylophanes fernandezi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia and Venezuela.The length of the forewings is 44-47 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes tersa tersa and Xylophanes resta but differs in its dark, monotonous appearance. The head and thorax are dark brown to brown-black...

  • Xylophanes ferotinus
    Xylophanes ferotinus
    Xylophanes ferotinus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela.The length of the forewings is about 31 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes tersa tersa but differs in the olive-green ground colour and a median band on the hindwing upperside consisting of small, brown spots. The...

  • Xylophanes fosteri
    Xylophanes fosteri
    Xylophanes fosteri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay, but is probably also found in Argentina.The length of the forewings is about 30 mm for males and 33 mm for females. It is similar to Xylophanes turbata. Differences in the forewing upperside are two short dashes...

  • Xylophanes fusimacula
    Xylophanes fusimacula
    Xylophanes fusimacula is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil to Colombia and Bolivia.Adults are similar in colour and pattern to Xylophanes undata and Xylophanes zurcheri but can be distinguished by the entire outer margin of the forewing...

  • Xylophanes germen
    Xylophanes germen
    Xylophanes germen is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala and is found from Venezuela to Bolivia....

  • Xylophanes godmani
    Xylophanes godmani
    Xylophanes godmani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama.It is most similar to Xylophanes rhodina, but the outer margin of the forewing is scalloped, the apex more falcate and the tornus more pronounced...

  • Xylophanes guianensis
    Xylophanes guianensis
    Xylophanes guianensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from French Guiana south-west to Bolivia.It is similar to Xylophanes ceratomioides, but the outer margin of the forewing margin is much more strongly scalloped and the dorsal lines of the abdomen are as in Xylophanes xylobotes...

  • Xylophanes gundlachii
    Xylophanes gundlachii
    Xylophanes gundlachii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba.It is similar to Xylophanes irrorata. Both the upperside of the body and forewings are deep green, while the hindwings are dark brown....

  • Xylophanes hannemanni
    Xylophanes hannemanni
    Xylophanes hannemanni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama and further south through Ecuador to Peru and Bolivia.The wingspan is 68-83 mm...

  • Xylophanes haxairei
    Xylophanes haxairei
    Xylophanes haxairei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from French Guiana and Venezuela.The length of the forewings is 37-38 mm. It is most similar to Xylophanes dolius but larger and with a markedly different pattern. The antennae are short, only reaching the forewing discal spot...

  • Xylophanes hydrata
    Xylophanes hydrata
    Xylophanes hydrata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil west to Bolivia and Peru.It is similar to Xylophanes elara but slightly larger and the postmedian lines and vein spots on the submarginal line on the forewing upperside are stronger. The postmedian line on the base of...

  • Xylophanes indistincta
    Xylophanes indistincta
    Xylophanes indistincta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-eastern Brazil.It is similar to Xylophanes aristor but smaller...

  • Xylophanes irrorata
    Xylophanes irrorata
    Xylophanes irrorata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba.The upperside and underside of the body and wings is uniformly pale pinkish-brown, although the underside is paler than the upperside. The forewing upperside has a darker brown postmedian line, with a pale proximal...

  • Xylophanes isaon
    Xylophanes isaon
    Xylophanes isaon is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-eastern Brazil and Paraguay to Argentina.The thorax has a grey medial line which widens posteriorly and is continued onto the abdomen as two widely separated but not very distinct bands...

  • Xylophanes jamaicensis
    Xylophanes jamaicensis
    Xylophanes jamaicensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Jamaica.It is similar to Xylophanes porcus porcus, but the forewings are shorter and broader, the tornus is more produced and the outer margin is more excavate below the apex.The larvae probably feed on Rubiaceae and...

  • Xylophanes jordani
    Xylophanes jordani
    Xylophanes jordani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Costa Rica.The wingspan is 50-56 mm. The females are larger than the males. It is similar to Xylophanes thyelia thyelia but distinguishable by the conspicuous dark brown basal area of the forewing upperside and the shape of the...

  • Xylophanes josephinae
    Xylophanes josephinae
    Xylophanes josephinae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Guatemala and Mexico.The wingspan is 40-42 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes damocrita but larger, the forewings are more elongate, making the outer margin appear almost straight, the hindwings are longer...

  • Xylophanes juanita
    Xylophanes juanita
    Xylophanes juanita is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico and Belize to Costa Rica.The wingspan is 57-59 mm. The dorsal scales of the antennae are blackish brown and pinkish latero-basally. The abdomen has two rows of dorsal dots. The lateral border of the tegulae are not well...

  • Xylophanes kaempferi
    Xylophanes kaempferi
    Xylophanes kaempferi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay.It is very similar to Xylophanes elara, but the forewing apex is less falcate and the dark scaling of the submarginal band on the hindwing upperside is lacking...

  • Xylophanes katharinae
    Xylophanes katharinae
    Xylophanes katharinae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico.It is intermediate in forewing shape between Xylophanes damocrita and Xylophanes josephinae, but distinguishable from both by the much broader pale orange median band on the hindwing upperside. The forewing apex is...

  • Xylophanes kiefferi
    Xylophanes kiefferi
    Xylophanes kiefferi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia.It is similar to Xylophanes aristor, but more robust, the outer edge of the forewing is straighter, the forewing upperside ground colour is deep rich brown and the first and fourth postmedian lines are farther apart....

  • Xylophanes libya
    Xylophanes libya
    The Libya Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern Texas, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Panama and from Venezuela south and west to Bolivia and Paraguay....

  • Xylophanes lichyi
    Xylophanes lichyi
    Xylophanes lichyi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia.The length of the forewings is 29-35 mm for males and 32-38 mm for females. It is similar to Xylophanes maculator, but the dorsal lines of the tegulae, thorax and abdomen are fainter...

  • Xylophanes loelia
    Xylophanes loelia
    Xylophanes loelia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-western Belize to Costa Rica and Panama to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. It is possibly also present in Paraguay....

  • Xylophanes macasensis
    Xylophanes macasensis
    Xylophanes macasensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Ecuador south into Bolivia.The wingspan is about 80 mm for both males and females. It is similar to Xylophanes ockendeni, but larger and with many pattern differences. Furthermore, the small black spots on the dorsum of the...

  • Xylophanes maculator
    Xylophanes maculator
    Xylophanes maculator is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico and Belize to Ecuador and further south to Venezuela and Bolivia.The wingspan is 65–75 mm...

  • Xylophanes marginalis
    Xylophanes marginalis
    Xylophanes marginalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.The length of the forewings is about 26 mm for males and 31 mm for females. It is similar to Xylophanes tyndarus but shorter-winged and with differences in the forewing pattern...

  • Xylophanes media
    Xylophanes media
    Xylophanes media is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia.It is similar to Xylophanes ceratomioides, but the outer margin of the forewing is less rounded and very slightly undulate. The outermost dorsal lines of the abdomen are posteriorly divergent...

  • Xylophanes meridanus
    Xylophanes meridanus
    Xylophanes meridanus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Surinam.It is similar to Xylophanes amadis, but the pale median band is always interrupted by black streaks along the veins, particularly those of the posterior part of the wing.The larvae possibly feed on Psychotria...

  • Xylophanes mirabilis
    Xylophanes mirabilis
    Xylophanes mirabilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia.The wingspan is about 95 mm. It cannot be confused with any other Xylophanes...

  • Xylophanes mossi
    Xylophanes mossi
    Xylophanes mossi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.It is similar to Xylophanes rufescens, but the forewing upperside is uniform rust-brown and all other pattern elements are reduced or absent....

  • Xylophanes mulleri
    Xylophanes mulleri
    Xylophanes mulleri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico.The length of the forewings is about 33 mm. The forewing upperside is uniform brown and separated from a well-developed brown fourth postmedian line by a strongly contrasting pale yellow line running from the inner...

  • Xylophanes nabuchodonosor
    Xylophanes nabuchodonosor
    Xylophanes nabuchodonosor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia and Peru.The wingspan is 76-82 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes rhodochlora, but the but first postmedian line on the forewing upperside is dentate on the veins between the costa and M3. The discal spot is small....

  • Xylophanes neoptolemus
    Xylophanes neoptolemus
    Xylophanes neoptolemus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Trinidad and Surinam to Venezuela and north-western Brazil. It is probably present in much of South America....

  • Xylophanes norfolki
    Xylophanes norfolki
    Xylophanes norfolki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Galapagos Islands.It is similar to Xylophanes tersa and related species, but the pattern and form of the forewing upperside is different...

  • Xylophanes obscurus
    Xylophanes obscurus
    Xylophanes obscurus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru and Brazil.It is similar to Xylophanes cosmius but the forewing upperside is darker, more uniform and sombre brown. Furthermore, the dark patch distal to discal spot is larger and trapezoidal. The conspicuous postmedian...

  • Xylophanes ockendeni
    Xylophanes ockendeni
    Xylophanes ockendeni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru.The length of the forewings is 35-36 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes rothschildi, but distinguishable by the slightly scalloped outer margin of the forewing, the more well-defined dark basal patch on the forewing...

  • Xylophanes pistacina
    Xylophanes pistacina
    Xylophanes pistacina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Nicaragua south to Brazil and west to Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina....

  • Xylophanes ploetzi
    Xylophanes ploetzi
    Xylophanes ploetzi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Surinam, French Guyana and Venezuela.It is similar to Xylophanes depuiseti and Xylophanes adalia. The abdomen has a thin median dorsal line. The underside of the body and wings is yellowish green. The lines of the forewing are...

  • Xylophanes pluto
    Xylophanes pluto
    The Pluto Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Bolivia and then through tropical and subtropical lowlands from Brazil north through Central America to Mexico, the West Indies, southern Florida and southern Texas.The wingspan is 53-65 mm...

  • Xylophanes porcus
    Xylophanes porcus
    The Porcus Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Florida south to Bolivia.The wingspan is 70-79 mm. The forewing upperside has a distinct discal spot...

  • Xylophanes pyrrhus
    Xylophanes pyrrhus
    Xylophanes pyrrhus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru south to Bolivia.The length of the forewings is 33-37 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes thyelia thyelia but larger and there are differences in the pattern on the forewing upperside, such as a smaller...

  • Xylophanes resta
    Xylophanes resta
    Xylophanes resta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Venezuela south to Peru and Bolivia.The length of the forewings is 36-41 mm. It is intermediate in appearance between Xylophanes aristor and Xylophanes tersa. There is a weakly developed golden medial line on the tegula...

  • Xylophanes rhodina
    Xylophanes rhodina
    Xylophanes rhodina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama and Costa Rica.It is similar to Xylophanes godmani, but the outer margin of the forewing is entire and almost straight, the apex is less falcate and the tornus is less pronounced. The abdomen has a scattering of long,...

  • Xylophanes rhodocera
    Xylophanes rhodocera
    Xylophanes rhodocera is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.The dorsal scales of the antennae are pink. The outer margin of the forewing is strongly convex. The forewing upperside pattern is very uniform...

  • Xylophanes rhodochlora
    Xylophanes rhodochlora
    Xylophanes rhodochlora is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Peru, Bolivia and possibly Colombia.It is similar to Xylophanes crotonis except for the forewing, which is smaller, shorter and broader. Although it is also green, it is considerably brighter. Furthermore, the pattern found...

  • Xylophanes rhodotus
    Xylophanes rhodotus
    Xylophanes rhodotus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru and Bolivia.It is intermediate between Xylophanes eumedon and Xylophanes titana. The tegula has a golden medial line...

  • Xylophanes robinsonii
    Xylophanes robinsonii
    Xylophanes robinsonii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba.The length of the forewings is about 22 mm. It is similar to Theretra monteironis and Xylophanes fosteri but smaller and the postmedian lines on the forewing upperside are better developed. The tegula has a...

  • Xylophanes rothschildi
    Xylophanes rothschildi
    Xylophanes rothschildi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru south to Bolivia.The wingspan is 63-72 mm. The upperside of the forewings is dark green with a bluish glow. The base of the wings is also green, but has a deeper colour...

  • Xylophanes rufescens
    Xylophanes rufescens
    Xylophanes rufescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from French Guyana, Venezuela, north-western Brazil and eastern Peru....

  • Xylophanes sarae
    Xylophanes sarae
    Xylophanes sarae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela.The wingspan is 68-86 mm for males and 75-90 mm for females. It is similar to Xylophanes crotonis, but smaller and the upperside of the body and forewings is brownish-green. The forewing upperside is brown with green...

  • Xylophanes schausi
    Xylophanes schausi
    Xylophanes schausi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia.The distal margin of the forewing is strongly convex. The abdomen has no dorsal lines. The postmedian lines are dentate and the two proximal lines are faint, but traceable from the costal to the...

  • Xylophanes schreiteri
    Xylophanes schreiteri
    Xylophanes schreiteri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina and Bolivia.The wingspan is 71-92 mm. It is similar to Xylophanes resta, but both forewings and hindwings are apically more falcate and the outer margin of the forewing is straighter...

  • Xylophanes schwartzi
    Xylophanes schwartzi
    Xylophanes schwartzi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador.The wingspan is 80-85 mm for males and 89-95 mm for females. It is similar to Xylophanes rhodochlora but distinguishable by the carmine-red undersides of the wings. The inner margin of the tegulae is edged with a very...

  • Xylophanes staudingeri
    Xylophanes staudingeri
    Xylophanes staudingeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Panama, Guatemala and Nicaragua.It is similar to Xylophanes cyrene but deep green....

  • Xylophanes suana
    Xylophanes suana
    Xylophanes suana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Bahamas.It is similar to Xylophanes tersa tersa but the upperside of the body and forewing is more uniform ash-grey, the abdomen is lacking the golden-yellow lateral stripes and the forewings are less elongate. Furthermore,...

  • Xylophanes tersa
    Xylophanes tersa
    The Tersa Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the United States , through Mexico, the West Indies and Central America and into parts of South America...

  • Xylophanes thyelia
    Xylophanes thyelia
    Xylophanes thyelia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico through Central America to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and further south into Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina....

  • Xylophanes titana
    Xylophanes titana
    Xylophanes titana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil and probably Guyana and Suriname.The wingspan is 60–88 mm. It is...

  • Xylophanes turbata
    Xylophanes turbata
    Xylophanes turbata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. An occasional stray may be found up to southern Arizona....

  • Xylophanes tyndarus
    Xylophanes tyndarus
    Xylophanes tyndarus is a moth of the Family Sphingidae. It is distributed from Mexico and Belize to Brazil and westward into Bolivia.The wingspan is 75-86 mm. The upperside of the body and wings is green, often very bright. The underside of the body is whitish green. The forewing has three narrow...

  • Xylophanes undata
    Xylophanes undata
    Xylophanes undata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Central America to Peru and further south into Bolivia.The wingspan is 72-83 mm. It is similar in colour and pattern to Xylophanes zurcheri, but the forewing outer margin is more strongly crenulated, the crenulations are all of...

  • Xylophanes xylobotes
    Xylophanes xylobotes
    Xylophanes xylobotes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru.It is similar to Xylophanes ceratomioides, but paler and all three dorsal abdominal lines are evenly narrow and continuous. The black apical line of the antenna is very short...

  • Xylophanes zurcheri
    Xylophanes zurcheri
    Xylophanes zurcheri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Belize.It is similar in colour and pattern to Xylophanes undata, but the forewing outer margin is less strongly crenulated, most distal postmedian lines on the forewing upperside are...


Genus Adhemarius
Adhemarius
Adhemarius is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Adhemarius blanchardorum - Hodges, 1985*Adhemarius daphne - *Adhemarius dariensis - *Adhemarius dentoni -...

  • Adhemarius blanchardorum
    Adhemarius blanchardorum
    Adhemarius blanchardorum is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Hodges in 1985, and is known from Texas and Mexico....

  • Adhemarius daphne
    Adhemarius daphne
    Adhemarius daphne is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Boisduval, 1875, and is known from Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay, as well as Cuba and Costa Rica.There are probably at least two generations per year...

  • Adhemarius dariensis
    Adhemarius dariensis
    Adhemarius dariensis is a species of moth in the Sphingidae family. It is known from Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.The wingspan is 107-111 mm for males and 124 mm for females. Adults are probably on wing year round....

  • Adhemarius dentoni
    Adhemarius dentoni
    Adhemarius dentoni is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Clark in 1916, and is found from Peru to Ecuador and has also been recorded from Bolivia....

  • Adhemarius donysa
    Adhemarius donysa
    Adhemarius donysa is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Druce in 1889, and is known from Mexico.There are probably at least two generations per year....

  • Adhemarius eurysthenes
    Adhemarius eurysthenes
    Adhemarius eurysthenes is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by R. Felder in 1874, and is known from Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay....

  • Adhemarius fulvescens
    Adhemarius fulvescens
    Adhemarius fulvescens is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Closs in 1915, and is known from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and north-central Nicaragua....

  • Adhemarius gagarini
    Adhemarius gagarini
    Adhemarius gagarini is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Zikán and 1935, and is known from Brazil, Bolivia and Guyana....

  • Adhemarius gannascus
    Adhemarius gannascus
    Adhemarius gannascus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Bolivia, Brazil, northern Argentina, southern Paraguay and Uruguay.The...

  • Adhemarius germanus
  • Adhemarius globifer
    Adhemarius globifer
    Adhemarius globifer is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Dyar and 1912, and is found from Mexico to southern Arizona.Adults are probably on wing year round....

  • Adhemarius palmeri
    Adhemarius palmeri
    Adhemarius palmeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Costa Rica into most of South America.The wingspan is 99-124 mm. The species probably broods continuously, with records indicating adults are on wing from March to July and again in October.The larvae probably feed on Ocotea...

  • Adhemarius sexoculata
    Adhemarius sexoculata
    Adhemarius sexoculata is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Grote in 1865, and is known from Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.The length of the forewings is 55-61 mm...

  • Adhemarius tigrina
    Adhemarius tigrina
    Adhemarius tigrina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Peru to Venezuela. It has also been recorded in Bolivia. Subspecies coronata is found in Colombia....

  • Adhemarius ypsilon
    Adhemarius ypsilon
    Adhemarius ypsilon is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903, and is known from Costa Rica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia....


Genus Ambulyx
Ambulyx
Ambulyx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Ambulyx adhemariusa - Eitschberger, Bergmann & Hauenstein, 2006*Ambulyx amara - Kobayashi, Wang & Yano, 2006*Ambulyx amboynensis - Rothschild, 1894...

  • Ambulyx andangi
    Ambulyx andangi
    Ambulyx andangi is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Brechlin, in 1998, and is known from the Moluccas in Indonesia....

  • Ambulyx auripennis
    Ambulyx auripennis
    Ambulyx auripennis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Moore, in 1879, and is known from Sri Lanka.It is similar to Ambulyx substrigilis, but the underside of the body is deeper yellow and the markings on the wing are less conspicuous....

  • Ambulyx bakeri
    Ambulyx bakeri
    Ambulyx bakeri is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Clark in 1929, and is known from the Philippines....

  • Ambulyx belli
    Ambulyx belli
    Ambulyx belli is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Jordan in 1923, and is known from India....

  • Ambulyx bima
    Ambulyx bima
    Ambulyx bima is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Rothschild and Jordan, in 1903, and is known from Indonesia.-Subspecies:*Ambulyx bima bima *Ambulyx bima schmickae Brechlin, 1998...

  • Ambulyx canescens
    Ambulyx canescens
    Ambulyx canescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Indochina, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines.It is considered a forest pest, because its larvae feed on the leaves of young Dryobalanops lanceolata. Larvae have also been reared on Shorea lepidota.-External...

  • Ambulyx celebensis
    Ambulyx celebensis
    Ambulyx celebensis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Jordan in 1919, and is known from Indonesia.-Subspecies:*Ambulyx celebensis celebensis...

  • Ambulyx ceramensis
    Ambulyx ceramensis
    Ambulyx ceramensis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Joicey and Talbot in 1921, and is known from Indonesia....

  • Ambulyx charlesi
    Ambulyx charlesi
    Ambulyx charlesi is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Clark in 1924, and is known from Indonesia....

  • Ambulyx clavata
    Ambulyx clavata
    Ambulyx clavata is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sundaland.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Lagerstroemia species....

  • Ambulyx cyclasticta
    Ambulyx cyclasticta
    Ambulyx cyclasticta is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand and Burma....

  • Ambulyx dohertyi
    Ambulyx dohertyi
    Ambulyx dohertyi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Queensland.It is similar to Ambulyx moorei and Ambulyx semifervens but the greenish olive stripe across tegula is sharply defined and broader, continued onto the metanotum as a...

  • Ambulyx immaculata
    Ambulyx immaculata
    Ambulyx immaculata is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Ambulyx inouei
    Ambulyx inouei
    Ambulyx inouei is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Ambulyx japonica
    Ambulyx japonica
    Ambulyx japonica is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.The wingspan is 81-90 mm. There is a broad subbasal band on the forewing upperside. Males are paler than females and less strongly marked.The larvae have been recorded feeding on...

  • Ambulyx johnsoni
    Ambulyx johnsoni
    Ambulyx johnsoni is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The wingspan is about 50 mm. It is similar to Ambulyx liturata but smaller, the upperside and underside of the wings is more yellowish and the underside of the palps, thorax, abdomen and bases of both...

  • Ambulyx joiceyi
  • Ambulyx jordani
    Ambulyx jordani
    Ambulyx jordani is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Ambulyx kuangtungensis
    Ambulyx kuangtungensis
    Ambulyx kuangtungensis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern China, northern Thailand, northern Vietnam and Taiwan.The wingspan is 65-80 mm....

  • Ambulyx lahora
    Ambulyx lahora
    Ambulyx lahora is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Himalaya in Pakistan and India....

  • Ambulyx lestradei
    Ambulyx lestradei
    Ambulyx lestradei is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka....

  • Ambulyx liturata
    Ambulyx liturata
    Ambulyx liturata is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Nepal, north-eastern India , Burma, Thailand and Vietnam to Fujian and Hong Kong in China.The wingspan is 106-134 mm...

  • Ambulyx maculifera
    Ambulyx maculifera
    Ambulyx maculifera is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India....

  • Ambulyx matti
    Ambulyx matti
    Ambulyx matti is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India....

  • Ambulyx meeki
    Ambulyx meeki
    Ambulyx meeki is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Solomon Islands.It can be distinguished from other Ambulyx species by the conspicuous olive antemedian and discal bands of the forewing upperside...

  • Ambulyx montana
    Ambulyx montana
    Ambulyx montana is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Vietnam and Burma.It is similar to Ambulyx semiplacida but larger, with a more elongated forewing and paler grey...

  • Ambulyx moorei
    Ambulyx moorei
    Ambulyx moorei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka, southern and eastern India, the Nicobar Islands and Andaman Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, southern China, the Philippines , Malaysia and Indonesia .The wingspan is 100–110 mm.Larvae have been recorded on Canarium album in...

  • Ambulyx naessigi
    Ambulyx naessigi
    Ambulyx naessigi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Moluccas....

  • Ambulyx obliterata
    Ambulyx obliterata
    Ambulyx obliterata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.-External links:**...

  • Ambulyx ochracea
    Ambulyx ochracea
    Ambulyx ochracea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Nepal and Sikkim, India, across central and southern China to South Korea and Japan, and south to Thailand, northern Vietnam and Taiwan....

  • Ambulyx phalaris
    Ambulyx phalaris
    Ambulyx phalaris is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Ambulyx placida
    Ambulyx placida
    Ambulyx placida is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Himalayan foothills of northern India, Nepal and Tibet....

  • Ambulyx pryeri
    Ambulyx pryeri
    Ambulyx pryeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Sundaland.Larvae have been recorded on Plumeria species.-Subspecies:*Ambulyx pryeri pryeri...

  • Ambulyx psedoclavata
    Ambulyx psedoclavata
    Ambulyx placida is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Himalayan foothills of northern India, Nepal and Tibet....

  • Ambulyx schauffelbergeri
    Ambulyx schauffelbergeri
    Ambulyx rudloffi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Ambulyx schmickae
  • Ambulyx semifervens
    Ambulyx semifervens
    Ambulyx semifervens is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia .It is similar to Ambulyx subocellata and Ambulyx dohertyi, but the wings are broader and the distal margin of the forewing is more convex....

  • Ambulyx semiplacida
    Ambulyx semiplacida
    Ambulyx semiplacida is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Taiwan.It is similar to Ambulyx placida, but the forewing upperside subterminal line is more strongly arched and the yellow proximal border is broader....

  • Ambulyx sericeipennis
    Ambulyx sericeipennis
    Ambulyx sericeipennis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from northern Pakistan and northern India eastwards across Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to central and southern China and Taiwan....

  • Ambulyx sericeipennis okurai
  • Ambulyx siamensis
    Ambulyx siamensis
    Ambulyx siamensis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-western China and Thailand.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Shorea obtusa in Thailand....

  • Ambulyx sinjaevi
    Ambulyx sinjaevi
    Ambulyx sinjaevi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India....

  • Ambulyx staudingeri
    Ambulyx staudingeri
    Ambulyx staudingeri is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.It is similar to Ambulyx pryeri, but the posterior third of the forewing upperside subterminal line is closer to the termen, and most specimens have a dark tornal shade....

  • Ambulyx substrigilis
    Ambulyx substrigilis
    Ambulyx substrigilis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Andaman Islands, the Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, China , Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines.The wingspan is 96-120 mm...

  • Ambulyx suluensis
    Ambulyx suluensis
    Ambulyx suluensis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Ambulyx tattina
    Ambulyx tattina
    Ambulyx tattina is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Philippines....

  • Ambulyx tenimberi
    Ambulyx tenimberi
    Ambulyx tenimberi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Ambulyx tondanoi
    Ambulyx tondanoi
    Ambulyx tondanoi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.The wingspan is about 47 mm. It is similar to Ambulyx substrigilis. The ground colour of the forewing upperside is light yellowish-brown with darker markings...

  • Ambulyx wildei
    Ambulyx wildei
    Ambulyx wildei is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and Queensland.The wingspan is about 110 mm. It is similar to Ambulyx substrigilis but the submarginal line of the forewing upperside is running closer to the margin. Females are deeper brown than males....

  • Ambulyx wilemani
    Ambulyx wilemani
    Ambulyx wilemani is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....


Genus Callambulyx
Callambulyx
Callambulyx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Callambulyx amanda - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Callambulyx junonia - *Callambulyx kitchingi - Cadiou 1996*Callambulyx poecilus -...

  • Callambulyx amanda
    Callambulyx amanda
    Callambulyx amanda is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines....

  • Callambulyx junonia
    Callambulyx junonia
    Callambulyx junonia is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bhutan, north-eastern India , southern China and northern Vietnam....

  • Callambulyx kitchingi
    Callambulyx kitchingi
    Callambulyx kitchingi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from China....

  • Callambulyx poecilus
    Callambulyx poecilus
    Callambulyx poecilus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found along the southern slopes of the Himalaya, from northern Pakistan, through Nepal and north-eastern India to southern China , and south into northern Thailand and Vietnam. It is also known from northern Sumatra.The...

  • Callambulyx rubricosa
    Callambulyx rubricosa
    Callambulyx rubricosa is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Nepal, north-eastern India, south-western China, Thailand, Vietnam and Java.The wingspan is about 132 mm...

  • Callambulyx schintlmeisteri
    Callambulyx schintlmeisteri
    Callambulyx schintlmeisteri is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Vietnam....

  • Callambulyx tatarinovii
    Callambulyx tatarinovii
    Callambulyx tatarinovii or in Japanese is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from northern Xinjiang across northern China, Mongolia, southern Siberia to the Russian Far East and Japan, and then south through Korea and central China to eastern Tibet. It is also found in...


Genus Ceridia
Ceridia
Ceridia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Ceridia heuglini - *Ceridia mira - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Ceridia nigricans - Griveaud 1959...

  • Ceridia heuglini
    Ceridia heuglini
    Ceridia heuglini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and grassland from Mali and Chad to Sudan, the Central African Republic and Uganda....

  • Ceridia mira
    Ceridia mira
    Ceridia mira is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry bush in eastern and northern Kenya.The length of the forewings is 19-21 mm for males and 22-24 mm for females. It is very similar to Ceridia heuglini, but the antennae are strongly pectinated, the forewings are shorter and...

  • Ceridia nigricans
    Ceridia nigricans
    Ceridia nigricans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....


Genus Clanis
Clanis
Clanis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Clanis baratana - Brechlin, 1998*Clanis bilineata - *Clanis deucalion - *Clanis euroa - Rothschild & Jordan 1903...

  • Clanis bilineata
    Clanis bilineata
    Clanis bilineata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Asia, but see the subspecies section for a detailed range.The wingspan is 94-150 mm for ssp. bilineata and 94-120 mm for ssp. tsingtauica. Adults of the nominate subspecies are on wing from late February until October, with peaks...

  • Clanis deucalion
    Clanis deucalion
    Clanis deucalion is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from northern India and Nepal to central eastern China.The wingspan is 104-124 mm.Larvae have been recorded feeding on the introduced Robinia pseudoacacia....

  • Clanis euroa
    Clanis euroa
    Clanis euroa is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Timor in Indonesia....

  • Clanis hyperion
    Clanis hyperion
    Clanis hyperion is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from southern China to northern Thailand and north-eastern India.Adults are on wing from March to October in Thailand....

  • Clanis negritensis
    Clanis negritensis
    Clanis negritensis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Clanis phalaris
    Clanis phalaris
    Clanis phalaris is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in north-eastern and southern India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands and northern Thailand.-Subspecies:*Clanis phalaris phalaris...

  • Clanis pratti
    Clanis pratti
    Clanis pratti is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi and surrounding islands.-Subspecies:*Clanis pratti pratti*Clanis pratti okurai Cadiou & Holloway, 1989...

  • Clanis schwartzi
    Clanis schwartzi
    Clanis schwartzi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from central and southern China to northern Laos and northern Vietnam....

  • Clanis stenosema
    Clanis stenosema
    Clanis stenosema is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nias, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines....

  • Clanis surigaoensis
    Clanis surigaoensis
    Clanis surigaoensis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The wingspan is about 78 mm. It is very similar to Clanis titan but the forewing apex is more attenuated and slightly falcate. There is a large cinnamon-coloured costal patch on forewing upperside....

  • Clanis titan
    Clanis titan
    Clanis titan is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from India and Nepal east and south through Myanmar and south-western China to Thailand, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia.The wingspan is 128-148 mm....

  • Clanis undulosa
    Clanis undulosa
    Clanis undulosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. The nominate subspecies is found in the southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and north-eastern China, as far as south and west as Shaanxi and Hebei. South from Sichuan , Hubei, Jiangxi and Zhejiang , it is replaced by ssp...


Genus Cypa
Cypa
CypA may also refer to:* Cyclophilin A, enzymeCypa is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Cypa bouyeri - Cadiou 1998*Cypa claggi - Clark 1935*Cypa decolor - *Cypa duponti - Roepke 1941...

  • Cypa bouyeri
    Cypa bouyeri
    Cypa bouyeri is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Cypa claggi
    Cypa claggi
    Cypa claggi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The length of the forewings is about 25 mm. The pattern is similar to Cypa ferruginea and the colour to Cypa decolor decolor. The forewing upperside is much lighter than the underside, but the hindwing...

  • Cypa decolor
    Cypa decolor
    Cypa decolor is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, Nepal, Myanmar, south-western China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Cypa duponti
    Cypa duponti
    Cypa duponti is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Sumatra, Java and Borneo....

  • Cypa enodis
    Cypa enodis
    Cypa enodis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India , Thailand, southern China, northern Vietnam , Taiwan and Peninsular Malaysia .The wingspan is about 65 mm....

  • Cypa ferruginea
    Cypa ferruginea
    Cypa ferruginea is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka.It is similar to Cypa decolor but the distal margin of the forewing is somewhat convex medially....

  • Cypa kitchingi
    Cypa kitchingi
    Cypa kitchingi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Cypa latericia
    Cypa latericia
    Cypa latericia is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand and Burma....

  • Cypa terranea
    Cypa terranea
    Cypa terranea is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sundaland....

  • Cypa uniformis
    Cypa uniformis
    Cypa uniformis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from China, north-western India and Borneo.-Subspecies:*Cypa uniformis uniformis *Cypa uniformis attenuata Inoue, 1991...


Genus Dolbina
Dolbina
Dolbina is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Dolbina borneensis - Brechlin, 2009*Dolbina elegans - Bang-Haas 1912*Dolbina exacta - Staudinger 1892*Dolbina formosana - Matsumura, 1927...

  • Dolbina elegans
    Dolbina elegans
    The Ash Hawkmoth, Dolbina elegans, is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Ukraine, Moldavia, through eastern Romania and eastern and southern Bulgaria, northern Greece, western and southern Turkey to northern Syria, western Jordan, Israel, northern Iraq and northern...

  • Dolbina exacta
    Dolbina exacta
    Dolbina exacta is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the southern part of the Russian Far East, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, south into China as far as Sichuan, Hubei and Zhejiang. The habitat consists of open parklands and forest edges.The wingspan is 55-58 mm. Both...

  • Dolbina grisea
    Dolbina grisea
    The Mountain Hawkmoth is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern Pakistan, Kashmir, eastern Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the western Gissar Mountains of southern Uzbekistan. The habitat consists of light, temperate montane forest, including juniper woodland.The...

  • Dolbina inexacta
    Dolbina inexacta
    Dolbina inexacta is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Pakistan, northern and central India and Nepal across Myanmar, southern China, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam to Taiwan....

  • Dolbina krikkeni
    Dolbina krikkeni
    Dolbina krikkeni is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sumatra....

  • Dolbina schnitzleri
    Dolbina schnitzleri
    Dolbina schnitzleri is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi....

  • Dolbina tancrei
    Dolbina tancrei
    Dolbina tancrei is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Russian Far East, north-eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan....


Genus Falcatula
Falcatula
Falcatula is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Falcatula cymatodes - Rothchild & Jordan 1912*Falcatula falcatus - *Falcatula penumbra -...

  • Falcatula cymatodes
    Falcatula cymatodes
    Falcatula cymatodes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forests in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda and the Central African Republic....

  • Falcatula falcata
  • Falcatula penumbra
    Falcatula penumbra
    Falcatula penumbra is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is very similar to Falcatula falcatus, but the upperside ground colour of the head, thorax and wings is darker brown with a more strongly developed pattern of dark brown...

  • Falcatula tamsi
    Falcatula tamsi
    Falcatula tamsi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ethiopia.The length of the forewings is 33 mm for males. The ground colour of the upperside of the forewings is pale greyish-yellow, but darker at the termen. There are two very small faint basal dots. The grey subbasal line is...


Genus Gynoeryx
Gynoeryx
Gynoeryx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Gynoeryx bilineatus - *Gynoeryx brevis - *Gynoeryx integer - *Gynoeryx meander -...

  • Gynoeryx bilineatus
    Gynoeryx bilineatus
    Gynoeryx bilineatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Gynoeryx brevis
    Gynoeryx brevis
    Gynoeryx brevis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Gynoeryx integer
    Gynoeryx integer
    Gynoeryx integer is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Gynoeryx meander
    Gynoeryx meander
    Gynoeryx meander is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Gynoeryx paulianii
    Gynoeryx paulianii
    Gynoeryx paulianii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Gynoeryx teteforti
    Gynoeryx teteforti
    Gynoeryx teteforti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....


Genus Kentrochrysalis
Kentrochrysalis
Kentrochrysalis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Kentrochrysalis consimilis - *Kentrochrysalis heberti - Haxaire & Melichar, 2010*Kentrochrysalis sieversi - Alpheraky 1897...

  • Kentrochrysalis consimilis
    Kentrochrysalis consimilis
    Kentrochrysalis consimilis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the southern part of the Russian Far East, eastern China, North Korea, South Korea and central and southern Japan.The wingspan is 62-72 mm...

  • Kentrochrysalis sieversi
    Kentrochrysalis sieversi
    Kentrochrysalis sieversi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the southern part of the Russian Far East, north-eastern China and South Korea.The wingspan is 88-90 mm. Adults are on wing from mid May to mid August in Korea....

  • Kentrochrysalis streckeri
    Kentrochrysalis streckeri
    Kentrochrysalis streckeri is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mongolia, the Russian Far East, north-eastern China and North Korea.The wingspan is 88-90 mm...


Genus Laothoe
Laothoe
In Greek mythology, Laothoe can refer to five women:*Laothoe, a wife of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Lycaon. Her father was Altes, king of the Leleges.*Laothoe, one of the daughters of Thespius and Megamede...

  • Laothoe amurensis
    Laothoe amurensis
    The Aspen Hawk-moth is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in the Northern part of the Palearctic ecozone. It flies in May and can be found only in far-Eastern Europe, including parts of Poland, Finland, Ukraine and Belarus. It exists also in Asia as few another subspecies. In spite of...

  • Laothoe austanti
    Laothoe austanti
    The Maghreb Poplar Hawkmoth is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Atlas Mountains and coastal plains of Morocco, northern Algeria and Tunisia and the neighbouring desert areas. The habitat consists of poplar- and willow-lined streams and rivers.The wingspan is 95-120 mm...

  • Laothoe philerema
    Laothoe philerema
    The Pamir Poplar Hawkmoth is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and eastern Afghanistan.The wingspan is 80-120 mm...

  • Laothoe populi

Genus Leucophlebia
Leucophlebia
Leucophlebia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Leucophlebia afra - Karsch, 1891*Leucophlebia caecilie - Eitschberger, 2003*Leucophlebia edentata - Rothschild & Jordan, 1916*Leucophlebia emittens - Walker, 1866...

  • Leucophlebia afra
    Leucophlebia afra
    Leucophlebia afra is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Senegal to northern Uganda and Sudan in the east, and to Angola in the west....

  • Leucophlebia emittens
    Leucophlebia emittens
    Leucophlebia emittens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India and bordering south-western China and Pakistan.It is similar to, but differs from Leucophlebia afra in that the median pale band of the forewing upperside is produced distally along the veins, especially the posterior...

  • Leucophlebia lineata
    Leucophlebia lineata
    Leucophlebia lineata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Thailand, eastern and southern China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines.The wingspan is 62–82 mm...

  • Leucophlebia neumanni
    Leucophlebia neumanni
    Leucophlebia neumanni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry bush in southern and western Ethiopia and in northern Uganda....


Genus Malgassoclanis
Malgassoclanis
Malgassoclanis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Malgassoclanis delicatus - *Malgassoclanis suffuscus -...

  • Malgassoclanis delicatus
    Malgassoclanis delicatus
    Malgassoclanis delicatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....

  • Malgassoclanis suffuscus
    Malgassoclanis suffuscus
    Malgassoclanis suffuscus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar....


Genus Marumba
Marumba
Marumba is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Marumba amboinicus - *Marumba cristata - *Marumba diehli - Roesler & Kuppers, 1975*Marumba dyras -...

  • Marumba amboinicus
    Marumba amboinicus
    Marumba amboinicus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia and the Philippines.-Subspecies:*Marumba amboinicus amboinicus Marumba amboinicus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia and the Philippines.-Subspecies:*Marumba...

  • Marumba cristata
    Marumba cristata
    Marumba cristata is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the Himalaya, through Nepal and north-east India, southern and central China to western Malaysia .The wingspan is 100-124 mm...

  • Marumba decoratus
  • Marumba diehli
    Marumba diehli
    Marumba diehli is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sumatra and Java....

  • Marumba dyras
  • Marumba fenzelii
    Marumba fenzelii
    Marumba fenzelii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from China.-Subspecies:*Marumba fenzelii fenzelii *Marumba fenzelii connectens Mell, 1939...

  • Marumba gaschkewitschii
    Marumba gaschkewitschii
    Marumba gaschkewitschii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in eastern Asia .The wingspan is 70-92 mm. Adults are on wing from mid May to late August in Korea. There are one to three generations per year....

  • Marumba indicus
    Marumba indicus
    Marumba indicus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India....

  • Marumba jankowskii
    Marumba jankowskii
    Marumba jankowskii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-eastern Russian Far East, north-eastern China, North Korea, South Korea and Japan....

  • Marumba juvencus
    Marumba juvencus
    Marumba juvencus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. The habitat consists of lowland forests...

  • Marumba maackii
    Marumba maackii
    Marumba maackii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Russian Far East, north-eastern China, North Korea, South Korea and northern Japan ....

  • Marumba nympha
    Marumba nympha
    Marumba nympha is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India....

  • Marumba poliotis
    Marumba poliotis
    Marumba poliotis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India.It is a small, grey species. There are shades of pale grey and pale brown on the forewing upperside, crossed by crenulated and irregular transverse lines....

  • Marumba quercus
    Marumba quercus
    The Oak Hawk-moth is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Southern Europe, North Africa, the Near East and Mesopotamia.The wingspan is 85-125 mm. The female is somewhat larger than the male....

  • Marumba saishiuana
    Marumba saishiuana
    Marumba saishiuana is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-eastern China, southern South Korea, Japan , northern Thailand, northern Vietnam and Taiwan.The wingspan is 75-85 mm...

  • Marumba spectabilis
    Marumba spectabilis
    Marumba spectabilis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, southern China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia ....

  • Marumba sperchius
    Marumba sperchius
    Marumba sperchius is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-western India across north-eastern India, south-western, central and eastern China to the southern Russian Far East, North Korea, South Korea and Japan. It is also present on Sumatra and Borneo.The wingspan is...

  • Marumba tigrina
    Marumba tigrina
    Marumba tigrina is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sumatra, Java and Borneo....

  • Marumba timora
    Marumba timora
    Marumba timora is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Indonesia.It is similar to Marumba dyras and Marumba sperchius, but the body and wings are a deeper tint and there is no distinct medial line running over the length of the body. The lines on distal half of the forewing...


Genus Neopolyptychus
Neopolyptychus
Neopolyptychus is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Neopolyptychus ancylus - *Neopolyptychus centralis - Basquin & Pierre, 2005*Neopolyptychus choveti - Pierre, 2004...

  • Neopolyptychus compar
    Neopolyptychus compar
    Neopolyptychus compar is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brachystegia woodland from Zimbabwe to Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania.The wingspan is 64-83 mm....

  • Neopolyptychus consimilis
    Neopolyptychus consimilis
    Neopolyptychus consimilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Savanna from southern Sudan to the Congo.The wingspan is about 30 mm for males....

  • Neopolyptychus convexus
    Neopolyptychus convexus
    Neopolyptychus convexus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brachystegia woodland in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and western Tanzania.The wingspan is 28-34 mm for males and 34-44 mm for females....

  • Neopolyptychus prionites
    Neopolyptychus prionites
    Neopolyptychus prionites is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forests and heavy woodland from Guinea to the Congo and western Uganda....

  • Neopolyptychus pygarga
    Neopolyptychus pygarga
    Neopolyptychus pygarga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests in western Africa, including Cameroon and Nigeria.The wingspan is 33-38 mm for males....

  • Neopolyptychus serrator
    Neopolyptychus serrator
    Neopolyptychus serrator is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from the Congo to Uganda and western Kenya. It is also known from Cameroon....


Genus Orecta
Orecta
Batocnema is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Orecta acuminata - Clark 1923*Orecta fruhstorferi - Clark 1916*Orecta lycidas - *Orecta venedictoffae - Cadiou 1995...

  • Orecta acuminata
    Orecta acuminata
    Orecta acuminata is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina.Adults are on wing in January....

  • Orecta fruhstorferi
    Orecta fruhstorferi
    Orecta fruhstorferi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela.The length of the forewings is about 34 mm. It is similar to Orecta lycidas but darker and more strongly marked. The forewing and hindwing upperside markings are chocolate brown, light brown on the...

  • Orecta lycidas
    Orecta lycidas
    Orecta lycidas is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia.Adults have been recorded in September.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Laurus nobilis and Nectandra venulosa....

  • Orecta venedictoffae
    Orecta venedictoffae
    Orecta venedictoffae is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador and Costa Rica.Adults have been recorded in mid June and early July in Costa Rica....

  • Pachysphinx modesta
    Pachysphinx modesta
    The Modest Sphinx or Poplar Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It ranges from the southern United States up and throughout Canada....


Genus Paonias
Paonias
Paonias is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Paonias astylus - *Paonias excaecata - *Paonias macrops - Gehlen, 1933*Paonias myops -...

  • Paonias astylus
    Paonias astylus
    The Huckleberry Sphinx is a moth in the family Sphingidae. It is found in eastern North America, from Maine south to Florida, west to Missouri and Mississippi....

  • Paonias excaecata
  • Paonias myops
    Paonias myops
    The Small-eyed Sphinx is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-eastern Canada to Florida and westward almost to the Pacific Coast. It is also known from Mexico....

  • Paonias wolfei
    Paonias wolfei
    Paonias wolfei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Cadiou and Haxaire in 1997. It is known from Mexico....


Genus Pentateucha
Pentateucha
Pentateucha is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Pentateucha curiosa - Swinhoe, 1908*Pentateucha inouei - Owada & Brechlin, 1997*Pentateucha stueningi - Owada & Kitching, 1997...

  • Pentateucha curiosa
    Pentateucha curiosa
    Pentateucha curiosa is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Nepal, north-eastern India, south-western China , northern Thailand and northern Vietnam.The wingspan is about 104 mm...

  • Pentateucha inouei
    Pentateucha inouei
    Pentateucha inouei is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Taiwan. The habitat consists of alpine forests.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ilex formosana....

  • Pentateucha stueningi
    Pentateucha stueningi
    Pentateucha stueningi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the isolated warm temperate mountains of Zhejiang and neighbouring Anhui in south-eastern China. The habitat consists of alpine forests....


Genus Phylloxiphia
Phylloxiphia
Afrosataspes is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Phylloxiphia bicolor - *Phylloxiphia formosa - Schultze, 1914*Phylloxiphia goodii -...

  • Phylloxiphia goodii
    Phylloxiphia goodii
    Phylloxiphia goodii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo....

  • Phylloxiphia bicolor
    Phylloxiphia bicolor
    Phylloxiphia bicolor is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo and Angola....

  • Phylloxiphia formosa
    Phylloxiphia formosa
    Phylloxiphia formosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast to the Central African Republic, Uganda and Tanzania, south to Zambia....

  • Phylloxiphia illustris
    Phylloxiphia illustris
    Phylloxiphia illustris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forest from Liberia to the Congo and western Uganda.The length of the forewings is 27-29 mm. The forewings and body are straw-coloured. The forewing has a number of irregular, dark transverse lines. The fringe is...

  • Phylloxiphia karschi
    Phylloxiphia karschi
    Phylloxiphia karschi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda....

  • Phylloxiphia metria
    Phylloxiphia metria
    Phylloxiphia metria is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brachystegia woodland Mozambique to Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and north to Malawi and Tanzania....

  • Phylloxiphia oberthueri
    Phylloxiphia oberthueri
    Phylloxiphia oberthueri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forests from Liberia and Ivory Coast east to the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

  • Phylloxiphia oweni
    Phylloxiphia oweni
    Phylloxiphia oweni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Sierra Leone east to the Central African Republic and then south to Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

  • Phylloxiphia punctum
    Phylloxiphia punctum
    Phylloxiphia punctum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna from north-eastern South Africa to Zimbabwe, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....

  • Phylloxiphia vicina
    Phylloxiphia vicina
    Phylloxiphia vicina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Liberia to Nigeria and to Tanzania and Zambia....


Genus Platysphinx
Platysphinx
Platysphinx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Platysphinx bouyeri - Haxaire & Bompar 2004*Platysphinx constrigilis - *Platysphinx dorsti - Rougeot 1977*Platysphinx phyllis - Rothschild & Jordan 1903...

  • Platysphinx constrigilis
    Platysphinx constrigilis
    Platysphinx constrigilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Africa.The length of the forewings is 55-65 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is very pale greenish brown with darker markings. There is a narrow, well defined dark streak from the costa to the centre of the outer...

  • Platysphinx dorsti
    Platysphinx dorsti
    Platysphinx dorsti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ethiopia....

  • Platysphinx phyllis
    Platysphinx phyllis
    Platysphinx phyllis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sierra Leone to Nigeria.The length of the forewings is 58-62 mm for males and 60-65 mm for females. There are red spots on the hindwing, which are evenly distributed and not arranged in regular bands. The forewing of the...

  • Platysphinx piabilis
    Platysphinx piabilis
    Platysphinx piabilis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Savanna and other open habitats in southern and eastern Africa....

  • Platysphinx stigmatica
    Platysphinx stigmatica
    Platysphinx stigmatica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Nigeria to the Congo, Angola and western Uganda....

  • Platysphinx vicaria
    Platysphinx vicaria
    Platysphinx vicaria is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sierra Leone to Nigeria, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.-Subspecies:*Platysphinx vicaria vicaria*Platysphinx vicaria basquini Pierre, 1989...


Genus Polyptychoides
Polyptychoides
Polyptychoides is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Polyptychoides afarissaque - Darge, 2004*Polyptychoides assimilis - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Polyptychoides cadioui - Darge, 2005...

  • Polyptychoides digitatus
    Polyptychoides digitatus
    Polyptychoides digitatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from heavy forest up to 8,000 feet from Liberia and Angola to Uganda and western Kenya.The length of the forewings is 39-41 mm for males. Females are larger and have broader wings....

  • Polyptychoides erosus
    Polyptychoides erosus
    Polyptychoides erosus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forest in Kenya and Tanzania, east of the Rift Valley.The length of the forewings is 35-41 mm for males and about 53 mm for females....

  • Polyptychoides grayii
    Polyptychoides grayii
    Gray's Polyptychus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern Africa, south to South Africa.The wingspan is 77-93 mm.The larvae feed on Cordia caffra....

  • Polyptychoides niloticus
    Polyptychoides niloticus
    Polyptychoides niloticus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Zambia to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.This species is subject to considerable seasonal and climatic variation. Extreme dry season specimens and specimens from arid areas are very small, sandy, with all markings faint or...

  • Polyptychoides vuattouxi
    Polyptychoides vuattouxi
    Polyptychoides vuattouxi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana....


Genus Polyptychus
Polyptychus
Polyptychus is a type of moth in the family Sphingidae. These middle-sized, light-brown moths are found in Africa and Southeast Asia.- Appearance :Middle-sized to large , light brown hawk moth...

  • Polyptychus affinis
    Polyptychus affinis
    Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forest up to from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya....

  • Polyptychus andosa
    Polyptychus andosa
    Coryndon's Polyptychus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern and western Africa.The length of the forewings is 26-29 mm for males and about 30 mm for females. The forewings and body of the female are cinnamon brown with indistinct markings...

  • Polyptychus anochus
    Polyptychus anochus
    Polyptychus anochus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Sierra Leone to Nigeria and the Congo.The wingspan is 30-33 mm.-Subspecies:*Polyptychus anochus anochus...

  • Polyptychus aurora
    Polyptychus aurora
    Polyptychus aurora is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Malawi....

  • Polyptychus baltus
    Polyptychus baltus
    Polyptychus baltus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon....

  • Polyptychus barnsi
  • Polyptychus baxteri
    Polyptychus baxteri
    Polyptychus baxteri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern and western Africa.The length of the forewings is 26 mm for males, females are somewhat larger. The body and forewings are greyish purple. There is a dark median streak on the head and thorax and a dark streak from the...

  • Polyptychus bernardii
    Polyptychus bernardii
    Polyptychus bernardii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon, the Congo and from the Central African Republic....

  • Polyptychus carteri
    Polyptychus carteri
    Polyptychus carteri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo and Uganda.The length of the forewings is 33-35 mm. The head and body are pale greyish brown with a dark median streak on the head and thorax. The forewings are pale greyish brown....

  • Polyptychus chinensis
    Polyptychus chinensis
    Polyptychus chinensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from China, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Archipelago.The wingspan is 92-112 mm.-Subspecies:*Polyptychus chinensis chinensis...

  • Polyptychus coryndoni
    Polyptychus coryndoni
    Polyptychus coryndoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brachystegia woodland from Zimbabwe to Malawi, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. It has also been recorded from northern Nigeria....

  • Polyptychus dentatus
    Polyptychus dentatus
    Polyptychus dentatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, tropical India and tropical Pakistan.The wingspan is 92-120 mm. The forewing upperside ground colour is grey-brown with darker brown transverse lines. The antemedian, postmedian and submarginal lines are...

  • Polyptychus distensus
    Polyptychus distensus
    Polyptychus distensus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon....

  • Polyptychus enodia
    Polyptychus enodia
    Polyptychus enodia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon and the Congo Republic....

  • Polyptychus girardi
    Polyptychus girardi
    Polyptychus girardi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Guinea east to Cameroon....

  • Polyptychus herbuloti
    Polyptychus herbuloti
    Polyptychus herbuloti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon....

  • Polyptychus hollandi
    Polyptychus hollandi
    Polyptychus hollandi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Nigeria to the Congo ....

  • Polyptychus lapidatus
    Polyptychus lapidatus
    Polyptychus lapidatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Liberia to Ghana and Gabon....

  • Polyptychus murinus
    Polyptychus murinus
    Polyptychus murinus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Liberia, Nigeria and from Cameroon to the Congo and Angola....

  • Polyptychus nigriplaga
    Polyptychus nigriplaga
    Polyptychus nigriplaga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from central and west Africa.The length of the forewings is 29-36 mm for males. The forewings and body are pale cinnamon to creamy clay. There is a dark mesial streak on the head and thorax and a dark dot at the base of the...

  • Polyptychus orthographus
    Polyptychus orthographus
    Polyptychus orthographus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Angola and Uganda....

  • Polyptychus paupercula
    Polyptychus paupercula
    Polyptychus paupercula is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from Liberia to Uganda.The length of the forewings is 27-31 mm for males, females are larger, darker and broader winged than the males. The wings are broader and less acuminate than other Polyptychus species. It is...

  • Polyptychus pierrei
  • Polyptychus potiendus
    Polyptychus potiendus
    Polyptychus potiendus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cameroon....

  • Polyptychus rougeoti
    Polyptychus rougeoti
    Polyptychus rougeoti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon.The forewings are long and narrow, apex acute. The ground colour of the upperside is wood brown, mottled with olive yellow at the costa, the inner margin and in the subapical area...

  • Polyptychus sinus
    Polyptychus sinus
    Polyptychus sinus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon....

  • Polyptychus thihongae
    Polyptychus thihongae
    Polyptychus thihongae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Gabon and the Central African Republic....

  • Polyptychus trilineatus
    Polyptychus trilineatus
    Polyptychus trilineatus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from large parts of Asia.The wingspan is 74-112 mm.The larvae feed on Ehretia species.-Subspecies:...

  • Polyptychus trisecta
    Polyptychus trisecta
    Polyptychus trisecta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from lowland forests from Liberia and Ghana to the Congo and western Uganda.The length of the forewings is 42-45 mm....


Genus Protambulyx
Protambulyx
Protambulyx is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Protambulyx astygonus - *Protambulyx carteri - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Protambulyx euryalus - Rothschild & Jordan 1903...

  • Protambulyx astygonus
    Protambulyx astygonus
    Protambulyx astygonus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.The wingspan is about 100 mm. It is similar to Protambulyx goeldii, but the forewing is lacking the large discal spot and the submarginal line of the hindwing is crenulated and angled...

  • Protambulyx carteri
    Protambulyx carteri
    Protambulyx carteri is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Florida.The wingspan is 95-111 mm. The forewing upperside is yellow to orangish brown with faint markings and no dark submarginal line. The hindwing upperside is yellow to orange with no markings.Adults are on wing...

  • Protambulyx euryalus
    Protambulyx euryalus
    Protambulyx euryalus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.The wingspan is 105-110 mm...

  • Protambulyx eurycles
    Protambulyx eurycles
    Protambulyx eurycles is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico....

  • Protambulyx goeldii
    Protambulyx goeldii
    Protambulyx goeldii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, southern Nicaragua, Costa Rica and probably Panama....

  • Protambulyx ockendeni
    Protambulyx ockendeni
    Protambulyx ockendeni is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru and much of Central America and South America. It has also been recorded in Bolivia.The wingspan is 105-110 mm...

  • Protambulyx strigilis
    Protambulyx strigilis
    The Streaked Sphinx is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from tropical and subtropical lowlands from Florida and throughout Central America and the West Indies south to...

  • Protambulyx sulphurea
    Protambulyx sulphurea
    Protambulyx sulphurea is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern and south-western Venezuela and Bolivia.The wingspan is about 110 mm. Adults are similar to Protambulyx ockendeni but the wings are narrower and paler and the pattern is less contrasting...


Genus Pseudoclanis
Pseudoclanis
Pseudoclanis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Pseudoclanis abyssinicus - *Pseudoclanis aequabilis - Darge, 2005*Pseudoclanis axis - Darge 1993*Pseudoclanis biokoensis - Darge 1991...

  • Pseudoclanis abyssinicus
    Pseudoclanis abyssinicus
    Pseudoclanis abyssinicus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sudan and Ethiopia....

  • Pseudoclanis admatha
  • Pseudoclanis axis
    Pseudoclanis axis
    Pseudoclanis axis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cameroon....

  • Pseudoclanis bianchii
  • Pseudoclanis biokoensis
    Pseudoclanis biokoensis
    Pseudoclanis biokoensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from São Tomé and Príncipe....

  • Pseudoclanis boisduvali
  • Pseudoclanis canui
    Pseudoclanis canui
    Pseudoclanis canui is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from São Tomé and Príncipe....

  • Pseudoclanis diana
    Pseudoclanis diana
    Pseudoclanis diana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Angola and Namibia....

  • Pseudoclanis evestigata
    Pseudoclanis evestigata
    Pseudoclanis evestigata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Zambia....

  • Pseudoclanis grandidieri
  • Pseudoclanis kenyae
    Pseudoclanis kenyae
    Pseudoclanis kenyae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.The length of the forewings is about 45 mm for males. The forewing upperside is unicolorous light grey, with very obscure markings. There us only a single row of...

  • Pseudoclanis molitor
  • Pseudoclanis occidentalis
    Pseudoclanis occidentalis
    Pseudoclanis occidentalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic and Kenya....

  • Pseudoclanis postica
    Pseudoclanis postica
    Pseudoclanis postica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa.The wingspan is 73-95 mm.The larvae feed on Celtis species....

  • Pseudoclanis rhadamistus
  • Pseudoclanis tomensis
    Pseudoclanis tomensis
    Pseudoclanis tomensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from São Tomé and Príncipe.The wingspan is about 65 mm for males. The forewing upperside very similar to Pseudoclanis postica but with a broad, dark marginal band. The hindwing upperside is bright yellow with a very straight...


Genus Rhodoprasina
Rhodoprasina
Rhodoprasina is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Rhodoprasina callantha - Jordan 1929*Rhodoprasina corolla - Cadiou & Kitching 1990*Rhodoprasina corrigenda - Kitching & Cadiou 1996...

  • Rhodoprasina callantha
    Rhodoprasina callantha
    Rhodoprasina callantha is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-eastern India across south-western China and northern Thailand to northern Vietnam....

  • Rhodoprasina corolla
    Rhodoprasina corolla
    Rhodoprasina corolla is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand....

  • Rhodoprasina corrigenda
    Rhodoprasina corrigenda
    Rhodoprasina corrigenda is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern Thailand and northern Vietnam.The wingspan is 104–116 mm. It is similar to Rhodoprasina corolla but larger and with a silvery sheen on the greenish forewings, which are longer and apically pointed...

  • Rhodoprasina floralis
    Rhodoprasina floralis
    Rhodoprasina floralis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern India and Nepal.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Acer campbelli....

  • Rhodoprasina nenulfascia
    Rhodoprasina nenulfascia
    Rhodoprasina nenulfascia is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern Tibet near the borders with India and Bhutan....

  • Rhodoprasina winbrechlini
    Rhodoprasina winbrechlini
    Rhodoprasina winbrechlini is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from northern Vietnam and southern Yunnan in China.Adult males have long antennae. The forewings are green with a faint blue tint. There is a red area on the hindwing upperside which does not extend beyond the...


Genus Rufoclanis
Rufoclanis
Rufoclanis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Rufoclanis erlangeri - *Rufoclanis fulgurans - *Rufoclanis jansei -...

  • Rufoclanis erlangeri
    Rufoclanis erlangeri
    Rufoclanis erlangeri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.It is similar to Rufoclanis numosae, but smaller and greyer, with a much better defined postdiscal band in hindwing....

  • Rufoclanis fulgurans
    Rufoclanis fulgurans
    Rufoclanis fulgurans is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry savanna and bush from Zimbabwe to Tanzania and eastern Kenya....

  • Rufoclanis jansei
    Rufoclanis jansei
    Rufoclanis jansei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania....

  • Rufoclanis maccleeryi
    Rufoclanis maccleeryi
    Rufoclanis maccleeryi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanzania and Kenya.The length of the forewings is 32 mm. The ground colour of the upperside of the forewings is light pinkish cinnamon, sprinkled with brown scales and darker beyond the medial line. There is a large,...

  • Rufoclanis numosae
    Rufoclanis numosae
    The Wawy Polyptychus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry bush and arid savanna in much of eastern and southern Africa....

  • Rufoclanis rosea
    Rufoclanis rosea
    Rufoclanis rosea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Uganda....


Genus Sataspes

  • Sataspes cerberus
    Sataspes cerberus
    Sataspes cerberus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines.The posterior sternites of the abdomen underside of the males are primrose-yellow and the basal costal tuft of the forewing and hindwing underside is yellow...

  • Sataspes infernalis
    Sataspes infernalis
    Sataspes infernalis is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-western and north-eastern India, Bangladesh, northern Myanmar and northern Thailand....

  • Sataspes ribbei
    Sataspes ribbei
    Sataspes ribbei is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sulawesi.There is a transverse yellow band on the abdomen upperside of the males and the posterior sternites of the abdomen underside are primrose-yellow. The thorax upperside of the females has no yellow scaling....

  • Sataspes scotti
    Sataspes scotti
    Sataspes scotti is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-western India....

  • Sataspes tagalica
    Sataspes tagalica
    Sataspes tagalica is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Myanmar, eastern and southern China and Thailand. The habitat consists of woodland margins and shady tracks through woodland, particularly near bodies of fresh water.The...


Genus Smerinthulus
Smerinthulus
Smerinthulus is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Smerinthulus designata - Clark, 1928*Smerinthulus diehli - Hayes, 1982*Smerinthulus dohrni - Rothschild & Jordan, 1903*Smerinthulus myanmarensis - Brechlin, 2000...

  • Smerinthulus diehli
    Smerinthulus diehli
    Smerinthulus diehli is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia .It is similar to Degmaptera olivacea but has pinker hindwings and whitish bands and markings on the forewing....

  • Smerinthulus dohrni
    Smerinthulus dohrni
    Smerinthulus dohrni is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Malaysia and Sumatra.It is similar to Smerinthulus perversa but the blackish shadowy postdiscal band on the hindwing upperside is lacking and the large creamy postdiscal patch on the forewing upperside of the male...

  • Smerinthulus perversa
    Smerinthulus perversa
    Smerinthulus perversa is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Taiwan, Nepal, north-eastern India, northern Myanmar, south-western and southern China and Thailand.The wingspan is 62–90 mm...

  • Smerinthulus quadripunctatus
    Smerinthulus quadripunctatus
    Smerinthulus quadripunctatus is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand and Sundaland.The ground colour of the forewing is dull reddish yellow in the male, darker and more reddish in the female...


Genus Smerinthus
Smerinthus
Smerinthus is a genus of moths and part of the Sphingidae.-Species:* - Austaut, 1890*Smerinthus caecus - Menetries, 1857*Smerinthus cerisyi - Kirby, 1837*Smerinthus jamaicensis -...

  • Smerinthus caecus
    Smerinthus caecus
    The Northern Eyed Hawkmoth is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Russia from St. Petersburg and Moscow to the Ural Mountains and across western Siberia and north-eastern Kazakhstan to the Altai Mountains...

  • Smerinthus cerisyi
    Smerinthus cerisyi
    The One-eyed Sphinx or Cerisy's Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-eastern Alaska, the southern parts of all Canadian provinces and in the northern border states of the United States south into northern Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and along the west coast to...

  • Smerinthus jamaicensis
    Smerinthus jamaicensis
    The Twin-spotted Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is widely distributed across North America and is found everywhere except in the southern half of western California...

  • Smerinthus kindermannii
    Smerinthus kindermannii
    Smerinthus kindermannii is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found throughout the central Palaearctic Region, from Turkey, Cyprus and Lebanon, east through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan to Kashmir. From there, north and north-east through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,...

  • Smerinthus minor
    Smerinthus minor
    The Lesser Eyed Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Mell in 1937. It is a montane species found from the Taibai Shan area, western Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, China eastwards along the Qinling to southern Shanxi and then north to just west of Beijing...

  • Smerinthus ocellata
    Smerinthus ocellata
    Smerinthus ocellata, known as the Eyed Hawk-Moth, is a European moth of the family Sphingidae.The eyespots are not visible in resting position, where the forewings cover them...

  • Smerinthus planus
    Smerinthus planus
    The Oriental Eyed Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Walker in 1856. It is found from northern Xinjiang across northern China, Mongolia and south-eastern Siberia to the Russian Far East and Japan, and then south through Korea and Taiwan to Hainan, Yunnan and eastern...

  • Smerinthus saliceti
    Smerinthus saliceti
    The Salicet Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in valleys and along streamsides from Mexico City north to western Texas, southern Arizona and extreme southern California....

  • Smerinthus szechuanus
    Smerinthus szechuanus
    Smerinthus szechuanus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Clark in 1938. It is known from Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan in China....

  • Smerinthus tokyonis
    Smerinthus tokyonis
    Smerinthus tokyonis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It was described by Matsumura in 1921. It is known from Honshu and Shikoku in Japan.Adults have been recorded in June....


Genus Acherontia (Death's head moth)

  • Acherontia atropos
    Acherontia atropos
    Acherontia atropos is the most widely-known of the three species of Death's-head Hawk moth. Acherontia species are notorious mainly for a vaguely skull-shaped pattern on the thorax.-Appearance:...

  • Acherontia styx
    Acherontia styx
    Acherontia styx is a Sphingid moth found in Asia, one of the three species of Death's-head Hawkmoth, also known as the Bee Robber. It is very fond of honey and bee keepers have reported to have found dead moths in their hives as a result of bee stings. They can mimic the scent of bees so that they...

  • Acherontia lachesis
    Acherontia lachesis
    Acherontia lachesis is a large Sphingid moth found in India and much of the Oriental region, one of the three species of Death's-head Hawkmoth, also known as the Bee Robber. It is nocturnal, and very fond of honey; they can mimic the scent of honey bees so that they can enter a hive unharmed to...


Genus Agrius
Agrius (genus)
Agrius is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae.These moths are generally grey with pinkish or yellowish suffusions on the hindwings and stripes on the abdomen.-Species:* Agrius convolvuli...

  • Agrius cingulata
    Agrius cingulata
    The Pink-spotted Hawkmoth or Sweetpotato Hornworm is a species of moth in the Sphingidae family. The imagines have a wingspan of 3 3/4 - 4 3/4 inches . They have a robust gray brown body with pink bands, hence the name. Their abdomen tapers to a point. The hindwings are gray with black bands and...

    (Pink-Spotted Hawkmoth)
  • Agrius convolvuli
    Agrius convolvuli
    The Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Agrius convolvuli, is a large hawkmoth. It is common throughout Europe, Africa and Australia.-Description and habits:The wingspan is 80-105 mm...

  • Agrius godarti
    Agrius godarti
    Agrius godarti is a moth in the family Sphingidae which is found inland in the northern half of Australia, including Queensland and New South Wales.They have a wingspan of about 80 mm...

  • Agrius luctifera
    Agrius luctifera
    Agrius luctifera is a moth in the Sphingidae family. It is found in Indonesia and New Guinea.It is similar to Sphinx maura in that the metanotum has conspicuous yellow tufts but with an additional smaller yellow spot posteriorly on either side of the mesonotum. There is slight sexual dimorphism,...

  • Agrius rothschildi
    Agrius rothschildi
    Agrius rothschildi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from New Caledonia. Agrius rothschildi is a replacement name for Sphinx fasciatus....


Genus Ceratomia
Ceratomia
Ceratomia is a genus of hawkmoths. Species include:-Species:*Ceratomia amyntor - *Ceratomia catalpae - *Ceratomia hageni - Grote 1874*Ceratomia hoffmanni - Mooser 1942...

  • Ceratomia amyntor
    Ceratomia amyntor
    The Elm sphinx, , sometimes called the Four-horned Sphinx, is a North American species of moth in the Sphingidae family. It has a wingspan of 3¼ - 4½ inches...

  • Ceratomia catalpae
    Ceratomia catalpae
    The Catalpa Sphinx is a hawk moth of the Sphingidae family.-Range:Ceratomia catalpae is a native of southeastern North America and can be located on catalpa trees that grow within this region...

  • Ceratomia hageni
    Ceratomia hageni
    Hagen's Sphinx , sometimes referred to as the Osage Orange Sphinx, is a hawk moth of the Sphingidae family.-Range:...

  • Ceratomia hoffmanni
    Ceratomia hoffmanni
    Ceratomia hoffmanni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico....

  • Ceratomia sonorensis
    Ceratomia sonorensis
    The Sonoran Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from high altitudes in oak and oak-pine associations in Madrean woodland in Sonora, Mexico and in south-eastern Arizona.The wingspan is 84-89 mm...

  • Ceratomia undulosa
    Ceratomia undulosa
    The Waved Sphinx is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in the United States, and southern Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains....


Genus Cocytius
Cocytius
Cocytius is a genus of hawkmoths....

  • Cocytius antaeus
    Cocytius antaeus
    The Giant Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil through Central America and into the southern parts of Texas and Florida in the United States.The wingspan is 126-178 mm...

  • Cocytius beelzebuth
  • Cocytius duponchel
    Cocytius duponchel
    Duponchel's Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in tropical and subtropical lowlands in Cuba and the West Indies and from Bolivia, southern Brazil and Argentina to Venezuela, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Mexico...

  • Cocytius lucifer
    Cocytius lucifer
    Amphonyx lucifer is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in tropical and subtropical lowlands from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, south through Venezuela to Brazil,...

  • Cocytius mortuorum
  • Cocytius vitrinus

Genus Coelonia
Coelonia
Coelonia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Coelonia brevis - Rothschild & Jordan 1915*Coelonia fulvinotata - *Coelonia solani -...

  • Coelonia brevis
    Coelonia brevis
    Coelonia brevis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Madagascar.The length of the forewings is about 39 mm for males....

  • Coelonia fulvinotata
    Coelonia fulvinotata
    Coelonia fulvinotata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from most habitats, excluding the more extreme ones, throughout the Ethiopian Region, from Gambia east to Ethiopia and south to northern South Africa and Madagascar....

  • Coelonia solani
    Coelonia solani
    Coelonia solani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mauritius, Réunion , Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.-Subspecies:*Coelonia solani solani...


Genus Euryglottis
Euryglottis
Euryglottis is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Euryglottis albostigmata - Rothschild 1895*Euryglottis aper - *Euryglottis davidianus - Dognin 1891*Euryglottis dognini - Rothschild 1896...

  • Euryglottis albostigmata
    Euryglottis albostigmata
    Euryglottis albostigmata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia and Peru.It is very different from other species in the Euryglottis genus, particularly in colour as well as the absence of a pale angle-shaped marking in submarginal area on the forewing upperside...

  • Euryglottis aper
    Euryglottis aper
    Euryglottis aper is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia.There are rather indistinct apical dots on sternites three to five and three lines forming a well-marked discal band on the forewing upperside....

  • Euryglottis davidianus
    Euryglottis davidianus
    Euryglottis davidianus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador and western Peru.The wingspan is about 80 mm. It is similar to Euryglottis aper but can be distinguished by the paler head paler smaller yellow abdominal spots and straighter subbasal and discal lines on the...

  • Euryglottis dognini
    Euryglottis dognini
    Euryglottis dognini is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela.The wingspan is about 117 mm. There are three rows of white spots on each side of the abdomen and a large white patch at the base on the abdomen underside.Adults are on wing in February...

  • Euryglottis guttiventris
    Euryglottis guttiventris
    Euryglottis guttiventris is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina.There are distinct apical spots on sternites three to five and a pale basal patch. Furthermore, the discal band and vein-streaks on the forewing upperside are less distinct than in...

  • Euryglottis johannes
    Euryglottis johannes
    Euryglottis johannes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela....

  • Euryglottis oliver
    Euryglottis oliver
    Euryglottis oliver is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru....


Genus Lapara
Lapara
Lapara is a town in the Boromo Department of Balé Province in south-western Burkina Faso. The town has a population of 2648....

  • Lapara bombycoides
    Lapara bombycoides
    The Northern Pine Sphinx is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It is known from mixed and coniferous forest in southern Canada as well as north-eastern Alberta and central Saskatchewan...

  • Lapara coniferarum
    Lapara coniferarum
    The Southern Pine Sphinx is a species of sphinx moth. It is known from mixed and pine forests from Nova Scotia and Maine south to Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana....

  • Lapara helicarnie
  • Lapara phaeobrachycerous
    Lapara phaeobrachycerous
    The Gulf Pine Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from pine forests in Mississippi and eastern Louisiana....


Genus Macropoliana
Macropoliana
Macropoliana is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Macropoliana afarorum - Rougeot 1975*Macropoliana asirensis - Wiltshire 1980*Macropoliana cadioui - Haxaire & Camiade, 2008...

  • Macropoliana afarorum
    Macropoliana afarorum
    Macropoliana afarorum is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Djibouti....

  • Macropoliana asirensis
    Macropoliana asirensis
    Macropoliana asirensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Saudi Arabia and Yemen....

  • Macropoliana ferax
    Macropoliana ferax
    Macropoliana ferax is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from highland forests in East Africa, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Malawi....

  • Macropoliana natalensis
    Macropoliana natalensis
    Macropoliana natalensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests and moist woodland from KwaZulu-Natal to Ethiopia and westwards to Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone....

  • ?Macropoliana ohefferani
  • Macropoliana scheveni
    Macropoliana scheveni
    Macropoliana scheveni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Tanzania....


Genus Manduca
Manduca
Manduca is a moth genus of the Sphingidae family. The Carolina Sphinx is often used in biological research....

  • Manduca afflicta
    Manduca afflicta
    Manduca afflcita is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Cuba and the Bahamas.It is similar to Manduca sexta. Adults feed on nectar from flowers....

  • Manduca albiplaga
    Manduca albiplaga
    The White-plaqued Sphinx is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. Its range is from Brazil to southern Mexico, although a stray has been recorded as far north as Kansas.Its wingspan is 60-72 mm....

  • Manduca albolineata
    Manduca albolineata
    Manduca albolineata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru....

  • Manduca andicola
    Manduca andicola
    Manduca andicola is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Central America to Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina.It is similar to Manduca lefeburii, Manduca incisa and Manduca jasminearum in having a relatively uniform forewing upperside with a conspicuous, rather diffuse dark band...

  • Manduca armatipes
    Manduca armatipes
    Manduca armatipes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Argentina and Manduca armatipes is a [[moth]] of the [[Sphingidae]] family. It is found from [[Argentina]] and...

  • Manduca aztecus
    Manduca aztecus
    Manduca aztecus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico....

  • Manduca barnesi
    Manduca barnesi
    Manduca andicola is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Guatemala to Costa Rica.The length of the forewings is about 60 mm. It is similar to Manduca franciscae and Manduca florestan, but longer winged than the latter. The forewing upperside ground colour is white with no discal spot....

  • Manduca bergarmatipes
    Manduca bergarmatipes
    Manduca bergarmatipes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Argentina and Uruguay.The wingspan is about 88 mm for males and 117 mm for females...

  • Manduca bergi
    Manduca bergi
    Manduca bergi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia.The wingspan is about 83 mm. The body and wings are greyish creamy buff, dusted with brown and ochreous scales. The head and thorax are without markings, but there are small black lateral patches on the abdomen....

  • Manduca blackburni
    Manduca blackburni
    Manduca blackburni, commonly known as Blackburn's Sphinx Moth, the Hawaiian Tomato Hornworm or Hawaiian Tobacco Hornworm, is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae that is endemic to Hawaii. Previously known to inhabit all of the main islands, this rare moth is now seen on Maui, the Big Island,...

  • Manduca boliviana
    Manduca boliviana
    Manduca boliviana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia.The length of the forewings is about 44 mm. It is similar to Manduca scutata and Manduca brasiliensis, but smaller, much lighter coloured and the forewings are shorter and more rounded than the latter...

  • Manduca brasilensis
    Manduca brasilensis
    Manduca brasiliensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.It is similar to Manduca scutata, but smaller, the sides of the thorax and upperside of the head and forewing are more greyish...

  • Manduca brontes
    Manduca brontes
    Manduca brontes is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It is known from Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic and Suriname.Adults are on wing from April to June in Florida....

  • Manduca brunalba
    Manduca brunalba
    Manduca brunalba is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, French Guiana, Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia.The wingspan is about 104 mm....

  • Manduca camposi
    Manduca camposi
    Manduca camposi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Ecuador....

  • Manduca caribbeus
    Manduca caribbeus
    Manduca caribbeus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.The wingspan is 80-85 mm. Adults have been recorded from May to June....

  • Manduca chinchilla
    Manduca chinchilla
    Manduca chinchilla is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru.It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Manduca genus, but a number of differences distinguish it from Manduca rustica, to which it most closely compares, particularly in its chalky grey colour, grey...

  • Manduca clarki
    Manduca clarki
    Manduca clarki is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.The length of the forewings is 45-50 mm...

  • Manduca contracta
    Manduca contracta
    Manduca contracta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia, Argentina and is probably also present in Uruguay.The wingspan is 95-105 mm.Adults have been recorded in February, March, April, May, July, November and December....

  • Manduca corallina
    Manduca corallina
    Manduca corallina is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica south to Venezuela....

  • Manduca corumbensis
    Manduca corumbensis
    Manduca corumbensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia and Brazil.The length of the forewings is about 56 mm. The antennae are white and brown. The Head, thorax and abdomen uppersides are grey. The wings have both brown and white fringes. The forewing upperside is also...

  • Manduca dalica
    Manduca dalica
    Manduca dalica is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Costa Rica.The wingspan is 120-135 mm. The upperside is generally dark, with mottled white forewing bases, connected by a similar pattern across the posterior part of the thorax...

  • Manduca diffissa
    Manduca diffissa
    Manduca difissa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from most of South America.The wingspan is 100-105 mm. Adults have been recorded from July to August and from September to December.-Subspecies:...

  • Manduca dilucida
    Manduca dilucida
    Manduca dilucida is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico to Belize, Nicaragua and Costa Rica and possibly across northern South America to Venezuela.The wingspan is 95-98 mm....

  • Manduca empusa
    Manduca empusa
    Manduca empusa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela....

  • Manduca extrema
    Manduca extrema
    Manduca extrema is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.Adults have been recorded in October....

  • Manduca feronia
    Manduca feronia
    Manduca feronia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil....

  • Manduca florestan
    Manduca florestan
    The Florestan Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the from the mountains of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and the lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the rest of Central America south into South America at...

  • Manduca fosteri
    Manduca fosteri
    Manduca fosteri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay and southern Brazil....

  • Manduca franciscae
    Manduca franciscae
    Manduca franciscae is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Venezuela.The length of the forewings is 42-47 mm for males and about 55 mm for females. It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Manduca genus, but whiter than any other species in the genus with the...

  • Manduca gueneei
    Manduca gueneei
    Manduca gueneei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.The length of the forewings is about 44 mm. The head, thorax and abdomen uppersides are grey with scattered dull red....

  • Manduca hannibal
    Manduca hannibal
    Manduca hannibal is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to Surinam, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and north-eastern Argentina.The wingspan is 99–114 mm...

  • Manduca huascara
    Manduca huascara
    Manduca huascara is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Colombia....

  • Manduca incisa
    Manduca incisa
    Manduca incisa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil and Bolivia.It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Manduca genus, but a number of differences distinguish it from Manduca lefeburii, to which it most closely compares, particularly in the narrow black...

  • Manduca janira
    Manduca janira
    Manduca janira is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-eastern Brazil.It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Manduca genus, but a number of differences distinguish it from Manduca brasiliensis, to which it most closely compares, particularly in the more...

  • Manduca jasminearum
    Manduca jasminearum
    The Ash Sphinx is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It ranges from east of the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, being common in the Northeast United States....

  • Manduca johanni
    Manduca johanni
    Manduca johanni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.The wingspan is about 115 mm. Adults have been recorded in May and June....

  • Manduca jordani
    Manduca jordani
    Manduca jordani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina and Bolivia....

  • Manduca kuschei
    Manduca kuschei
    Manduca kuschei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico.The length of the forewings is 39 mm for males and 46 mm for females. It is extremely similar to Manduca dilucida and males can only be distinguished by a study of the genitalia. Females are also similar, but are separable...

  • Manduca lanuginosa
    Manduca lanuginosa
    Manduca lanuginosa is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Venezuela.The wingspan is 86-104 mm...

  • Manduca lefeburii
    Manduca lefeburii
    Manduca lefeburii is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.The wingspan is 89-110 mm...

  • Manduca leucospila
    Manduca leucospila
    Manduca leucospila is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia.The length of the forewings is about 47 mm...

  • Manduca lichenea
    Manduca lichenea
    Manduca lichenea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from south-eastern Brazil.The wingspan is about 94 mm....

  • Manduca lucetius
    Manduca lucetius
    Manduca lucetius is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Surinam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.There is variation in the shape of the forewings...

  • Manduca manducoides
    Manduca manducoides
    Manduca manducoides is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.It is can be distinguished from other species in the Manduca genus by the dark forewing upperside with few paler markings, the hindwing upperside with an extensive white basal area and...

  • Manduca morelia
    Manduca morelia
    Manduca morelia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico....

  • Manduca mossi
    Manduca mossi
    Manduca mossi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru, eastern Ecuador and Bolivia.Adults have been recorded in January....

  • Manduca muscosa
    Manduca muscosa
    The Muscosa Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from southern and western Arizona in tropical and subtropical lowlands and premontane forests and oak woodland, then south through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.The wingspan is 100-126 mm...

  • Manduca occulta
    Manduca occulta
    The Occult Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Panama north through Central America and Mexico to southern Arizona and on occasion southern Florida....

  • Manduca ochus
    Manduca ochus
    Manduca ochus is a member of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua to Venezuela and Ecuador.The wingspan is 119-120 mm. It can not be confused with any other Manduca species because of the forewing pattern of a tawny brown and the mottled charcoal costal area...

  • Manduca opima
  • Manduca pellenia
    Manduca pellenia
    Manduca pellenia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador....

  • Manduca prestoni
    Manduca prestoni
    Manduca prestoni is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia.It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Manduca genus, but a number of differences distinguish it from Manduca lefeburii, to which it most closely compares, particularly in the...

  • Manduca quinquemaculata
  • Manduca reducta
    Manduca reducta
    Manduca reducta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru and Bolivia.There are probably multiple generations per year....

  • Manduca rustica
    Manduca rustica
    The Rustic Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the southern parts of the United States , southward through Mexico, Central America and South America to Uruguay....

  • Manduca schausi
    Manduca schausi
    Manduca schausi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia....

  • Manduca scutata
    Manduca scutata
    Manduca scutata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Venezuela south to Bolivia and northern Argentina.The wingspan is about 95 mm. Adults have been recorded in November....

  • Manduca sesquiplex
    Manduca sesquiplex
    Manduca sesquiplex is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.The wingspan is 119-120 mm. The ground colour of the body and wings is whitish smoky grey, while ssp. opima is more greenish. There is probably one generation per year with adults on wing from...

  • Manduca sexta
  • Manduca stuarti
    Manduca stuarti
    Manduca stuarti is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia.It can be distinguished from all other Manduca species by the pattern and structure. There is no lateral, yellow patch found on the abdomen underside, but there are intensely coloured patches present on the more distal...

  • Manduca trimacula
    Manduca trimacula
    Manduca trimacula is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Colombia to Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia.The length of the forewings is 55-60 mm. The body and forewing uppersides are brownish-yellow, mottled with grey and tawny olive. There is a creamy white streak located above the eye....

  • Manduca tucumana
    Manduca tucumana
    Manduca tucumana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina and Bolivia.The wingspan is about 108 mm. It is similar in appearance to several other members of the Manduca genus, but a number of differences distinguish it from Manduca pellenia and Manduca scutata, to which it most...

  • Manduca undata
    Manduca undata
    Manduca undata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina and Paraguay.The wingspan is about 100 mm. The head and thorax are pale olive. Both wings have greyish creamy buff or grey uppersides, shaded with brown and crossed by black lines and bands...

  • Manduca vestalis
    Manduca vestalis
    Manduca vestalis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Brazil to Venezuela and probably north-western Bolivia.Adults have been recorded in November....

  • Manduca violaalba
    Manduca violaalba
    Manduca violaalba is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.The length of the forewings is about 39 mm. It is a unique species in the Manduca genus, in that it stands out from others because of its much darker forewings, also contrasted by its whitish underwings....

  • Manduca wellingi
    Manduca wellingi
    Manduca wellingi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico to Belize.It is similar to Manduca pellenia, but is smaller....


Genus Meganoton
Meganoton
Meganoton is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Meganoton analis *Meganoton hyloicoides Rothschild, 1910*Meganoton loeffleri Eitschberger, 2003*Meganoton nyctiphanes...

  • Meganoton analis
    Meganoton analis
    Meganoton analis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from India, Nepal, southern and eastern China, northern Thailand, northern Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, the southern part of the Russian Far East , South Korea and Japan....

  • Meganoton hyloicoides
    Meganoton hyloicoides
    Meganoton hyloicoides is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea....

  • Meganoton nyctiphanes
    Meganoton nyctiphanes
    Meganoton nyctiphanes is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Nicobar Islands, the Andaman Islands, south-eastern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines ....

  • Meganoton rubescens
    Meganoton rubescens
    Meganoton rubescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from north-eastern India, central and northern Thailand, southern China, northern Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, northern Australia and the Solomon Islands.The wingspan is about 130 mm...

  • Meganoton yunnanfuana
    Meganoton yunnanfuana
    Meganoton yunnanfuana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from southern China and northern Vietnam....


Genus Neogene
Neogene
The Neogene is a geologic period and system in the International Commission on Stratigraphy Geologic Timescale starting 23.03 ± 0.05 million years ago and ending 2.588 million years ago...

  • Neogene albescens
    Neogene albescens
    Neogene albescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina....

  • Neogene carrerasi
    Neogene carrerasi
    Neogene carrerasi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina....

  • Neogene corumbensis
    Neogene corumbensis
    Neogene corumbensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Argentina and Bolivia.The length of the forewings is 23 mm for males and 25 mm for females. It is mostly unicolorous brown....

  • Neogene curitiba
    Neogene curitiba
    Neogene curitiba is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.The wingspan is 52-63 mm. Adults have been recorded in October....

  • Neogene dynaeus
    Neogene dynaeus
    Neogene dynaeus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Brazil.It is similar to Neogene reevi. There is an oblique, more or less interrupted, grey apical band on the forewing upperside that usually joins the grey, transverse discal band. The hindwing upperside is more or less suffused...

  • Neogene intermedia
    Neogene intermedia
    Neogene intermedia is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay.The length of the forewings is about 28 mm. It is intermediate between Neogene reevei and Neogene pictus. The thorax and abdomen uppersides are black. The forewing upperside is almost as dark as in Neogene pictus and...

  • Neogene pictus
    Neogene pictus
    Neogene pictus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay and northern Argentina....

  • Neogene reevei
    Neogene reevei
    Neogene reevei is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.It is similar to Neogene dynaeus. The hindwing upperside disc is more shaded with brown in the female than in the male, where the colour is mainly restricted to the veins...

  • Neogene steinbachi
    Neogene steinbachi
    Neogene steinbachi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Bolivia.Adults have been recorded in August....


Genus Pantophaea
Pantophaea
Pantophaea is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Pantophaea favillacea - *Pantophaea jordani - *Pantophaea oneili -...

  • Pantophaea favillacea
    Pantophaea favillacea
    Pantophaea favillacea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and bush from eastern Kenya to Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique....

  • Pantophaea jordani
    Pantophaea jordani
    Pantophaea jordani is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from woodland and savanna from west Africa to Uganda.The body and forewings are grey, with a wide, diffuse dark grey postmedial band and a dark diffuse spot at the costa, near the apex. The stigma is small, round and whitish. The...

  • Pantophaea oneili
    Pantophaea oneili
    Pantophaea oneili is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Zimbabwe....


Genus Poliana
Poliana
Poliana is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Poliana albescens - Inoue 1996*Poliana buchholzi - *Poliana leucomelas - Rothschild & Jordan 1915*Poliana micra - Rothschild & Jordan 1903...

  • Poliana albescens
    Poliana albescens
    Poliana albescens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the Philippines....

  • Poliana buchholzi
    Poliana buchholzi
    Poliana buchholzi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from forests from western Africa to Uganda and western Kenya.The length of the forewings is 41-45 mm. The forewings are olive grey, variously mottled with whitish and transversely banded with numerous crenulate blackish lines. The...

  • Poliana leucomelas
    Poliana leucomelas
    Poliana leucomelas is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Thailand....

  • Poliana micra
    Poliana micra
    Poliana micra is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from arid scrubland from Somalia to eastern Kenya.The length of the forewings is 22-28 mm. The body is grey, mottled and faintly spotted with darker and lighter grey. The forewings are grey with crenulated darker transverse lines, and a...

  • Poliana wintgensi
    Poliana wintgensi
    Poliana wintgensi is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and dry bush from eastern Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Mozambique....


Genus Praedora
Praedora
Praedora is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Praedora leucophaea - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Praedora marshalli - Rothschild & Jordan 1903*Praedora plagiata - Rothschild & Jordan 1903...

  • Praedora leucophaea
    Praedora leucophaea
    Praedora leucophaea is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from dry bush areas from northern South Africa to Kenya.The length of the forewings is 20-21 mm. The body and forewings are greyish white with light brown transverse bands. The hindwings are uniform very pale grey....

  • Praedora marshalli
    Praedora marshalli
    Praedora marshalli is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna and bush in northern South Africa, Angola, Botswana and Zambia....

  • Praedora plagiata
    Praedora plagiata
    Praedora plagiata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from savanna from Zimbabwe to Tanzania.The length of the forewings is 24-29 mm. The forewing upperside is grey with a faint pinkish tone...


Genus Psilogramma
Psilogramma
Psilogramma is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.-Species:*Psilogramma andamanica - Brechlin, 2001*Psilogramma angelika - Eitschberger, 2004*Psilogramma anne - Eitschberger, 2001*Psilogramma argos - Moulds & Lane, 1999...

  • Psilogramma increta
    Psilogramma increta
    Psilogramma increta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-eastern China, Japan and Korea, south and east through China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Peninsular Malaysia, to the Greater Sunda Islands, west through Burma, Nepal and India to Kashmir...

  • Psilogramma jordana
    Psilogramma jordana
    Psilogramma jordana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Fiji....

  • Psilogramma menephron
    Psilogramma menephron
    The Privet Hawk Moth is a member of the Family Sphingidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India , Nepal, central and southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Psilogramma casuarinae from eastern Australia was long treated as a synonym, but is now thought to be a distinct species...

  • Psilogramma papuensis
    Psilogramma papuensis
    Psilogramma papuensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Papua New Guinea and north-eastern Australia.-Subspecies:*Psilogramma papuensis papuensis...

  • Psilogramma wannanensis
    Psilogramma wannanensis
    Psilogramma wannanensis is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from eastern China....


Genus Sphinx
Sphinx
A sphinx is a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head or a cat head.The sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless...

  • Sphinx adumbrata
    Sphinx adumbrata
    Sphinx adumbrata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico. The thorax upperside, head upperside and palpi are grey. There is a narrow, black mesial line on the abdomen upperside with five elliptical, pale yellow spots. The abdomen underside is grey with a mesial black line...

  • Sphinx arthuri
  • Sphinx asellus
  • Sphinx aurigutta
  • Sphinx balsae
  • Sphinx biolleyi
  • Sphinx caligineus
    Sphinx caligineus
    Sphinx caligineus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Japan, north-eastern, eastern, central and southern China, South Korea, northern Thailand and southern Vietnam.The wingspan is 55-76 mm....

  • Sphinx canadensis
    Sphinx canadensis
    The Canadian Sphinx is a member of the family Sphingidae that is found the Northeastern United States and as north as Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada....

  • Sphinx centrosinaria
    Sphinx centrosinaria
    Sphinx centrosinaria is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet in southern China.The wingspan is about 76 mm. It is very similar in colour and pattern to Sphinx crassistriga, but larger, the forewing is more elongate and apically pointed.The larvae probably feed...

  • Sphinx chersis
    Sphinx chersis
    The Great Ash Sphinx or Northern Ash Sphinx is a moth that belongs to the family Sphingidae.-Appearance:This insect has a large wing span . The upperside of the forewing is soft dark-gray to blue-gray with a series of black dashes, one of which reaches the wing tip. The upperside of the hindwing...

  • Sphinx chisoya
    Sphinx chisoya
    The Chisoya Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from tropical and subtropical lowlands from southern Texas to Mexico....

  • Sphinx constricta
    Sphinx constricta
    Sphinx constricta is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Japan.It is similar to Sphinx ligustri, especially the pattern, but the pink colour is less intense...

  • Sphinx crassistriga
    Sphinx crassistriga
    Sphinx crassistriga is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Japan.The length of the forewings is about 38 mm. The upperside of the body is pale brown, while the underside of the body is cinnamon brown. The forewing upperside is wood brown with brownish black markings and the underside...

  • Sphinx dollii
    Sphinx dollii
    Doll's Sphinx Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from arid brushlands and desert foothills from Nevada and southern California east through Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and from New Mexico to Oklahoma and Texas....

  • Sphinx drupiferarum
    Sphinx drupiferarum
    The Wild Cherry Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the temperate parts of the United States to southern Canada....

  • Sphinx eremitoides
  • Sphinx eremitus
    Sphinx eremitus
    The Hermit Sphinx is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in the temperate areas of the eastern United States, north into southern Canada over the Great Plains. It prefers gardens and yards, but is common wherever the nectar and larval host plants are found...

  • Sphinx formosana
    Sphinx formosana
    Sphinx formosana is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from the northern central mountains of Taiwan....

  • Sphinx franckii
    Sphinx franckii
    Franck's Sphinx Moth is a moth in the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland deciduous woodland in the eastern United States but also suburban areas where Lilacs are planted, ranging from New York to northern Florida east to Missouri and Louisiana.The wingspan is 100-128 mm...

  • Sphinx geminus
    Sphinx geminus
    The Gemmed sphinx moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua with an occasional stray into Texas.The wingspan is 92-105 mm...

  • Sphinx gordius
    Sphinx gordius
    The Apple Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the northern parts of the United States and southern Canada, mostly east of the Rocky Mountains, additionally it is found along the east coast to Florida and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.The wingspan is 68-108 mm.The larvae...

  • Sphinx istar
  • Sphinx justiciae
  • Sphinx kalmiae
    Sphinx kalmiae
    The Laurel Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the temperate parts of the United States and southern Canada east of the Great Plains, in the north it occurs west of the Rocky Mountains.The wingspan is 75-103 mm....

  • Sphinx leucophaeata
  • Sphinx libocedrus
    Sphinx libocedrus
    The Incense Cedar Sphinx is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It ranges from the western Texas to southern California and Mexico....

  • Sphinx ligustri
  • Sphinx lugens
    Sphinx lugens
    Lintneria lugens is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua.It is similar to Lintneria eremitus, but larger. There are small black spots on the pale abdomen underside...

  • Sphinx luscitiosa
    Sphinx luscitiosa
    Clemens' Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Nova Scotia south to New Jersey, west through Michigan, Wisconsin and the northern plains to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana and south to Utah. It has been taken as far north as Yukon.The wingspan is 56-80 mm...

  • Sphinx maura
  • Sphinx maurorum
    Sphinx maurorum
    The Southern Pine Hawkmoth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in southern and central France as far north as Corrèze and the Atlas Mountains and Rif Mountains of North Africa. There are also records from Corsica. The wingspan is 70-80 mm. There are...

  • Sphinx merops
    Sphinx merops
    Lintneria merops is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from western South America, including Venezuela, to Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Lintneria merops is a [[moth]] of the [[Sphingidae]] family...

  • Sphinx morio
    Sphinx morio
    The Larch Hawk Moth is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Russia, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and China.The wingspan is 60-80 mm....

  • Sphinx oberthueri
    Sphinx oberthueri
    Sphinx oberthueri is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from central and south-western China to northern Thailand.The larvae feed on Pinus massoniana in Yunnan....

  • Sphinx perelegans
    Sphinx perelegans
    The Elegant Sphinx is a species of hawkmoth. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California and to New Mexico....

  • Sphinx phalerata
  • Sphinx pinastri
    Sphinx pinastri
    Sphinx pinastri, known as the Pine Hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Palearctic ecozone and sometimes the Nearctic ecozone. This species has been found in Scotland but is usually found in England....

  • Sphinx pitzahuac
  • Sphinx poecila
    Sphinx poecila
    The Poecila Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Newfoundland and Maine south to Pennsylvania and west to Michigan, northeastern Illinois and Wisconsin.The wingspan is 68-95 mm....

  • Sphinx porioni
  • Sphinx praelongus
    Sphinx praelongus
    Lintneria praelongus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Honduras and Guatemala.It is similar to Lintneria istar but more greyish white and the forewings are more elongate....

  • Sphinx pseudostigmatica
  • Sphinx separatus
    Sphinx separatus
    The Separated Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Colorado south through New Mexico and Arizona to Veracruz and Hidalgo in Mexico....

  • Sphinx sequoiae
    Sphinx sequoiae
    The Sequoia Sphinx is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from Oregon south through California, Nevada, and south-eastern Utah to Arizona and further south into northern Baja California.The wingspan is 48-68 mm...

  • Sphinx smithi
  • Sphinx tricolor
  • Sphinx vashti
    Sphinx vashti
    The Vashti Sphinx is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It is found from British Columbia east to Manitoba, south to southern California, Nevada, central Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas....

  • Sphinx xantus

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