Erinnyis ello

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Ello sphinx
Erinnyis ello ello MHNT CUT 2010 0 525 Itatiaia National Park Brazil - male dorsal.jpg
Male - MHNT
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Male underside - MHNT
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Erinnyis
Species:
E. ello
Binomial name
Erinnyis ello
Synonyms
  • Sphinx elloLinnaeus, 1758
  • Erinnyis ciniferaZikán, 1934
  • Erinnyis ello omorfia(Mooser, 1942)

Erinnyis ello, the ello sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed from Argentina through Central America to the United States as far north as Nevada.

Contents

The ello sphinx can be parasitized by the braconid wasp Microplitis figueresi . [2]

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References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. Janzen, D. H.; Walker, A. K.; Whitfield, J. B.; Delvare, G.; Gauld, I. D. (April 2003). "Host-specificity and hyperparasitoids of three new Costa Rican species of Microplitis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), parasitoids of sphingid caterpillars" (PDF). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 12 (1): 51–72. ISSN   1070-9428. OCLC   815681518. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2018.