Enyo lugubris (original) (raw)
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Species of moth
| Mournful sphinx | |
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| Enyo lugubris female dorsal | |
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| Enyo lugubris female ventral | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Enyo |
| Species: | E. lugubris |
| Binomial name | |
| Enyo lugubris(Linnaeus, 1771)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
| Sphinx lugubris Linnaeus, 1771_Sphinx fegeus_ Cramer, 1779_Epistor luctuosus_ Boisduval, 1875_Epistor lugubris delanoi_ Kernbach, 1962 |
Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the West Indies through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from Arizona east to Florida and north to South Carolina. Strays have been recorded from Arkansas, north to Illinois, Michigan and New York.
Adults are on wing year round in the tropics (including southern Florida and Louisiana). Further north, they are on wing from August to November.
The larvae probably feed on Vitus tiliifolia and other Vitaceae species, such as Vitis, Cissus and Ampelopsis. In Florida larvae have been reported on Cissus sicyoides and Ampelopsis arborea.
- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ "Silkmoths". Silkmoths.bizland.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- Enyo lugubris lugubris
- Enyo lugubris delanoi (Kernbach, 1962) (Galapagos Islands)
Enyo lugubris delanoi ♂
_Enyo lugubris delanoi_♂ △- Mournful sphinx Butterflies and Moths of North America
