Sphinx adumbrata

Sphinx adumbrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Sphinx
Species: S. adumbrata
Binomial name
Sphinx adumbrata
(Dyar, 1912)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hyloicus adumbrata Dyar, 1912

Sphinx adumbrata is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Mexico. [2]

The thorax upperside, head upperside and palpi are grey. There is a narrow, black mesial line on the abdomen upperside with five elliptical, pale yellow spots. The abdomen underside is grey with a mesial black line. The forewing upperside is also grey, with a black basal patch on the hind margin and a black line in the discal cell. The hindwing upperside is grey with diffuse, dark, basal mesial and submarginal bands.

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