| Pawpaw Sphinx | |
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| Dolba hyloeus, adult | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Dolba Walker, 1856 |
| Species: | D. hyloeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dolba hyloeus (Drury, 1773)[1] |
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The Pawpaw Sphinx (Dolba hyloeus) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It ranges throughout the eastern United States from Maine south to Florida, and west to Wisconsin, eastern Oklahoma, and southern Texas.
Larvae of this species feed on pawpaw, as well as deciduous hollies such as inkberry and winterberry.