Sphinx caligineus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Sphinx
- Species
- Sphinx caligineus
- Scientific Name
- Sphinx caligineus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sphinx caligineus
Sphinx caligineus, the Chinese pine hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Japan, north-eastern, eastern, central and southern China, South Korea, northern Thailand and southern Vietnam.
The wingspan is 55–76 mm.
The larvae feed on Pinus tabulaeformis to the west and north of Beijing, as well as the ornamental Pinus armandii. In Guangdong, larvae have been recorded on Pinus massoniana. Other recorded food plants include Pinus elliottii and Pinus taeda.
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Sibling Taxa
- Sphinx adumbrata
- Sphinx asellus
- Sphinx balsae
- Sphinx bhutana
- Sphinx biolleyi
- Sphinx caliginea
- Sphinx caligineus
- Sphinx canadensis
- Sphinx centrosinaria
- Sphinx centrovietnama
- Sphinx chersis
- Sphinx chisoya
- Sphinx constricta
- Sphinx crassistriga
- Sphinx dollii
- Sphinx drupiferarum
- Sphinx formosana
- Sphinx franckii
- Sphinx gordius
- Sphinx kalmiae
- Sphinx leucophaeata
- Sphinx libocedrus
- Sphinx ligustri
- Sphinx luscitiosa
- Sphinx maurorum
- Sphinx morio
- Sphinx nogueirai
- Sphinx oberthueri
- Sphinx oberthuri
- Sphinx oenotherae
- Sphinx perelegans
- Sphinx pinastri
- Sphinx pitzahuac
- Sphinx praelongus
- Sphinx pseudostigmatica
- Sphinx schieffermilleri
- Sphinx sequoiae
- Sphinx tricolor
- Sphinx vanbuskirki
- Sphinx vashti
- Sphinx xantus
- Sphinx yunnana