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Pachylia ficus (Fig sphinx)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pachylia ficus, known as the fig sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It lives from the northern tip of South America in Uruguay through Central America to the southern tip of the United States straying into Arizona and Texas.
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Prey / Diet

Ficus carica (piku)[1]
Ficus humilis (climbingfig)[1]
Ficus religiosa (peepul tree)[1]
Ficus thonningii (Chinese banyan)[1]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1HOSTS - 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