| Sagenosoma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Tribe: | Sphingini |
| Genus: | Sagenosoma Jordan, 1946 |
| Species: | S. elsa |
| Binomial name | |
| Sagenosoma elsa (Strecker, [1878])[1] |
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Sagenosoma is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containing only one species, the Elsa Sphinx Moth (Sagenosoma elsa), which is known from the south-western United States (Arizona, western New Mexico, southern Utah and Colorado) and northern Mexico.
The length of the forewings is 23-38 mm. Adults are on wing from mid April to mid August, in either one or two generations.
The larvae have been recorded on Lycium pallidum.