Pachylia ficus

Fig sphinx
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, Grand Cayman
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Pachylia
Species:
P. ficus
Binomial name
Pachylia ficus
Synonyms
  • Sphinx ficus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pachylia undatifascia Butler, 1876
  • Pachylia lyncea Clemens, 1859
  • Chaerocampa crameri Ménétriés, 1857
  • Pachylia ficus venezuelensis Schaufuss, 1870
  • Pachylia ficus aterrima (Bönninghausen, 1899)

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.[2]

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  2. ^ "Silkmoths". Silkmoths.bizland.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-10-19.