Enyo bathus

Enyo bathus
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
  • Epistor bathus Rothschild, 1904

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

References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. "Silkmoths". Silkmoths.bizland.com. Retrieved 2011-10-19.