Enyo bathus
Enyo bathus | |
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Type specimen of Enyo bathus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Enyo |
Species: | E. bathus |
Binomial name | |
Enyo bathus (Rothschild, 1904)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Enyo bathus is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is known from Peru and Bolivia.
It is similar to Enyo gorgon and Enyo taedium taedium, but there are no patches of woolly scaling on the abdomen. The forewing upperside is intermediate in pattern between these two species. The anterior half of the wing has a dark brown, median, longitudinal line that diverges apically to form a dark brown triangular patch. The line is followed by a marginal pale brown half-moon shaped patch.
There are probably two to three generations per year.[2]
Subspecies
- Enyo bathus bathus (Peru)
- Enyo bathus otiosus Kernbach, 1957 (Bolivia)
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ↑ "Silkmoths". Silkmoths.bizland.com. Retrieved 2011-10-19.