Proserpinus flavofasciata

Yellow-banded day sphinx
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Proserpinus
Species:
P. flavofasciata
Binomial name
Proserpinus flavofasciata
(Walker, 1856)[1]
Synonyms
  • Macroglossa flavofasciata Walker, 1856
  • Macroglossa ulalume Strecker, [1878]
  • Lepisesia ulalume var. rachel Bruce, 1901

Proserpinus flavofasciata, the yellow-banded day sphinx, is a species of hawk moth which occurs at the edges of, and in clearings in, boreal and mountain forests across Canada, as far south as Maine and Massachusetts in the east and as far north as Alaska in the west. It is much more common in the west of its range.

  1. ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2011-10-25.