Walnut Sphinx 

Walnut Sphinx
Adult specimen
Adult specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Family: Sphingidae
Subfamily: Sphinginae
Genus: Amorpha
Species: A. juglandis
Binomial name
Amorpha juglandis
(J. E. Smith, 1797)

The Walnut Sphinx (Amorpha juglandis) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains and from the southern United States up into parts of Canada. The caterpillars of this moth feed on the following host plants:

Adult moths are nocturnal, being found rarely outside the early hours of the night (Fullard & Napoleone 2001).

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