Pachylia ficus

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Fig sphinx
Pachylia ficus, adult
Pachylia ficus, adult
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Pachylia
Species: P. ficus
Binomial name
Pachylia ficus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Fig sphinx (Pachylia ficus) 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.

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