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Ceratomia undulosa (waxed sphinx)

Synonyms: Ceratomia borealis; Ceratomia brontes; Ceratomia engeli; Ceratomia polingi; Ceratomia repentinus

Wikipedia Abstract

Ceratomia undulosa (waved sphinx) 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. Active eating Datura (Devils Trumpet) The Villages, Fl 32162 9/3/2016.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  3.701 inches (.094 m)

Prey / Diet

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♦ 1Auditory influences on the flight behaviour of moths in a Nearctic site. I. Flight tendency, Scott B. Morrill and James H. Fullard, CAN. J. ZOOL. VOL. 70, 1992, pp. 1097-1101
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0