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Location: Recife-PE, Brazil.
Mournful sphinx. Enyo lugubris (Linnaeus, 1771)
Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. 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 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.
The wingspan is 50–60 mm. The body and wings are dark brown. The forewing has a large black patch covering most of the outer half of the wing. There is a pale tan cell spot, and a fairly straight median line to the inside of the cell spot.[2]
Adults are on wing year round in the tropics (including southern Florida and Louisiana). Further north, they are on wing from August to November.
Family: Sphingidae
Subfamily: Macroglossinae
Identification: Body and wings are dark brown. Forewing has a large black patch covering most of the outer half of the wing, a pale tan cell spot, and a fairly straight median line to the inside of the cell spot.
Wing Span: 2 - 2 3/8 inches (5 - 6 cm).
Life History: Adults fly during the day, and make a whirring sound as they fly. Caterpillars pupate in loose cocoons in shallow underground burrows.
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.
Taxonomy:
Animals Kingdom Animalia
Arthropods Phylum Arthropoda
Hexapods Subphylum Hexapoda
Insetos Class Insecta
Winged and Once-winged Insects Subclass Pterygota
Butterflies and Moths Order Lepidoptera
Hawk, Sphinx, Silk, Emperor, and Allied Moths Superfamily Bombycoidea
Sphinx Moths Family Sphingidae
Macroglossine Sphinx Moths Subfamily Macroglossinae
Tribe Dilophonotini
Subtribe Dilophonotina
Genus Enyo
Mournful Sphinx Enyo lugubris
Enyo lugubris ssp. lugubris
References
^ "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.
Subspecies
Enyo lugubris lugubris
Enyo lugubris delanoi (Kernbach, 1962) (Galapagos Islands)
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