This is a species list for the family Sphingidae of moths (Lepidoptera), commonly known as hawk-moths. This list contains all known species of Sphingidae in order of subfamily. There should be about 1,288 species listed. There are three subfamilies:
Subfamily Macroglossinae
Subfamily Smerinthinae
Subfamily Sphinginae
The species list is given below.
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The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as "hornworms";...
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Larva of Agrius convolvuli Pupa of Agrius convolvuli "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original...
Mimas tiliae, the lime hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East, and has also been...
Cerisy's sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by William Kirby who named the species in honor of Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre...
poplar hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found...
are mainly Noctuidae, but they also comprise Sphingidae, Gelechiidae, and Crambidae. Several speciesof Nicotiana, such as N. sylvestris, N. alata 'Lime...
Ceratomia catalpae, the catalpa sphinx, is a hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875. Other...
This list contains species first discovered in Hong Kong, with the endemic species asterisked. Bauhinia (Bauhinia blakeana) Crapnell's camellia (Camellia...
Hyles livornica, the striped hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper described the striped hawk-moth in 1780 using...
mainly on Sphingidae caterpillars and more beetles. The breeding colony collected different (proportions of) prey the subsequent year. The food of one one‐month...
families Erebidae and Sphingidae, may be the key pollinators for some flowering plants in the Himalayan ecosystem. The roles of moths as pollinators have...
especially the Sphingidae, such as the pink-spotted hawk moth (Agrius cingulata) - or even hummingbirds. The genus includes food crops; the tubers of sweet potatoes...
the hawk moths of the family Sphingidae. Their behavior is similar to hummingbirds, i.e., using rapid wing beats to hover in front of flowers. Most hawk...
self-pollination. The flowers are visited by various insects including Noctuidae, Sphingidae, bumblebees, and hoverflies. In the Northern Hemisphere Saponaria officinalis...
recorded on several species Australian grapevine moth (Phalaenoides glycinae), recorded on fringed willowherb (E. ciliatum) Sphingidae Elephant hawk-moth...
Theretra silhetensis, the brown-banded hunter hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Francis Walker in 1856. It lives in Indo-Australia...
This is a listof butterflies and moths—speciesof the order Lepidoptera—found in the U.S. state of Indiana. Pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor Zebra...
islands of Aruba, Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius. According to a recent estimate, there are 110 Lepidoptera species in the Dutch...
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