Paonias myops

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Small-Eyed Sphinx
Adult specimen
Adult specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Family: Sphingidae
Subfamily: Sphinginae
Genus: Paonias
Species: P. myops
Binomial name
Paonias myops
(J.E. Smith, 1797)

The small-eyed sphinx (Paonias myops) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Adult moths are nocturnal than most sphingids; after an initial bout of activity after dusk, they fly throughout the night (Fullard & Napoleone 2001).

[edit] References

  • Fullard, James H. & Napoleone, Nadia (2001): Diel flight periodicity and the evolution of auditory defences in the Macrolepidoptera. Animal Behaviour 62(2): 349–368. doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1753 PDF fulltext

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