Cautethia yucatana

Cautethia yucatana
Cautethia yucatana Dorsal
Cautethia yucatana ventral
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Cautethia
Species: C. yucatana
Binomial name
Cautethia yucatana
Clark, 1919

Cautethia yucatana is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from California and Mexico south to Central America. It was described by Clark in 1919.[1]

Female moths in this species have a wingspan of 16 millimetres. It is very similar to Cautethia spuria but smaller, the forewings are shorter and more rounded. The forewing upperside ground colour is smoky grey. The tornus has a dark bar, narrowing and continuing obscurely to the midpoint of the costal margin. The basal area of the hindwing upperside is pale yellow. There is a black marginal band extending almost to the discal cell.

References

  1. "Cautethia yucatana Clark, 1919 sec CATE Sphingidae, 2009". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-19.

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