Ceratomia undulosa

Waved sphinx

Adult specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Ceratomia
Species:	C. undulosa
Binomial name
*Ceratomia undulosa* (Walker, 1856)^[1]
Synonyms
Daremma undulosa Walker, 1856 Ceratomia repentinus Clemens, 1859 Ceratomia undulosa borealis Clark, 1929 Ceratomia undulosa engeli Chermock & Chermock, 1940

The Waved Sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in the United States, and southern Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.

Adult moths are strictly nocturnal, hiding away as dawn approaches (Fullard & Napoleone 2001).

Recorded food plants of the larvae include Fraxinus possibly Quercus species as well as Lycopersicon or garden tomato (leaves and fruit).

Larvae then dig underground to pupate.

Subspecies

Ceratomia undulosa undulosa (from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia west to eastern Alberta and Maine to Florida west to the eastern Great Plains and south to Florida, the Gulf Coast and Texas)
Ceratomia undulosa polingi Clark, 1929 (Mexico)

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