Lintneria separatus

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Separated sphinx
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Lintneria separatus ♂
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Lintneria
Species:
L. separatus
Binomial name
Lintneria separatus
(Neumoegen, 1885) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sphinx separatusNeumoegen, 1885 [2]
  • Sphinx separatus melaenaRothschild & Jordan, 1916 [3]

Lintneria separatus, the separated sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Berthold Neumoegen in 1885. It is found from Colorado south through New Mexico and Arizona to Veracruz and Hidalgo in Mexico. [4]

The wingspan is 110–125 mm. It probably has one brood from late June to early August.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Salvia greggii .

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References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. ↑ Neumoegen, B. (1885). "Descriptions of New Lepidoptera". Entomologica Americana. 1 (5): 92.
  3. ↑ Rothschild, Walter; Jordan, Karl (1916). "Further Corrections of and Additions to Our "Revision of the Sphingidae"". Novitates Zoologicae. 23: 253.
  4. ↑ "Silkmoths". Silkmoths.bizland.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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