The Sphingidae of Indiana

Darapsa myron courtesy of John H. Campbell.

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Please help me improve this site by sending sighting data (species; location [county]; date) to Bill Oehlke. Images are also greatly appreciated and will be used and credited (with permission) on county pages. I will attempt to identify any Sphingidae larvae or adults that are unknown to you.

Sphinginae subfamily

Sphingini tribe:

Agrius cingulata rare, stray
Ceratomia amyntor
Ceratomia catalpae
Ceratomia hageni
Ceratomia undulosa
Dolba hyloeus
Lapara bombycoides
Lapara coniferarum
Manduca jasminearum wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Manduca quinquemaculata
Manduca sexta
Paratrea plebeja rare
Sphinx canadensis
Sphinx chersis
Sphinx drupiferarum
Sphinx eremitus
Sphinx franckii
Sphinx kalmiae
Sphinx luscitiosa

Smerinthini tribe:

Amorpha juglandis
Pachysphinx modesta
Paonias excaecata
Paonias myops
Smerinthus jamaicensis















Macroglossinae subfamily

Dilophonotini tribe:mm

Hemaris diffinis
Hemaris gracilis
Hemaris thysbe
Pachylia ficus stray

Philampelini tribe:mm

Eumorpha achemon
Eumorpha fasciata stray


Eumorpha pandorus

Macroglossini tribe:

Amphion floridensis
Darapsa choerilus
Darapsa myron
Darapsa versicolor
Deidamia inscriptum
Hyles lineata
Specodina abbottii
Xylophanes tersa


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Scott Reely sent me the image of the Eumorpha fasciata larva included above. To my knowledge, it has not previously been reported from Indiana.

Scott writes, "I found four of them eating a rosette pond weed out in the middle of our lake (was cleaning out some of the weeds and saw them out there just above water level...) They started out kinda pink and after I brought them inside and put them on fuller pieces of plants...they turned green and got the lines and colors all over them....As a couple of them have dropped off and started their wandering around to burrow...they have turned back to these colors backed by a pale pink.....They are some of the biggest sphinx larvae that I have ever seen...including big poplar sphinx..Found a couple of days ago (September 26, 2004) here in Terre Haute, Indiana."