Ceratomia undulosa
| Ceratomia undulosa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Ceratomia |
| Species: | C. undulosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceratomia undulosa (Walker, 1856)[1] | |
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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 and possibly Quercus species. 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)
Gallery
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- 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
External links
- Waved Sphinx Moths of North America Guide
- Moths of North Dakota
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