| Prairie Sphinx Moth | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Euproserpinus |
| Species: | E. wiesti |
| Binomial name | |
| Euproserpinus wiesti Sperry, 1939[1] |
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The Prairie Sphinx Moth or Wiest's Primrose Sphinx (Euproserpinus wiesti) is a species of moth in the Sphingidae family. It is found from north-eastern California through central Nevada and most of Utah to north-eastern Arizona and northern three-quarters of New Mexico and most of Colorado, and further eastward into extreme western portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.[2] The habitat consists of sand washes and prairie blow-outs.
The wingspan is 32-49 mm.
There is one generation per year with adults on wing from May to June. Adults nectar at flowers during the day.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Oenothera latifolia.