The Sphingidae of Maryland

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.

Thanks to Mike Soukup for noting I had omitted Manduca sexta and Darapsa versicolor from the list. Mike writes, "The only thing I have caught here that is not on your list is Manduca sexta - and it is very common.

"I get A. cingulata almost every fall as it migrates up - but I doubt that it breeds here. I also know Darpsa versicolor HAS to be here....I've just never found it (yet) - but I will!!!!"

Mike Soukup reports Agrius cingulata from Anne Arundel County, October 9, 2003.

Eumorpha pandorus, 17 July 2006, Middle River, Maryland just east of Baltimore,
courtesy of Carl F. Guerci Jr.

Amorpha juglandis, July 29, 2007, Hereford/Parkton, Baltimore County, Maryland,
courtesy of Meredith King.

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Individual county checklists: Counties will be completed as sightings arrive. Currently only those in red are active.

Howard County:

Agrius cingulata
Ceratomia catalpae August 15th; July 15th
Ceratomia undulosa June 13; 19th
Manduca sexta
Sphinx kalmiae June 28th; August 10th
Smerinthus jamaicensis August 4th, 2004
Paonias excaecata 25th to 30th of July
Paonias myops June 10, 2003
Amorpha juglandis June 11th to the 15th
Hemaris thysbe July 19th to August 3rd
Hemaris diffinis April 2nd to September 5th
Eumorpha pandorus July 10th to the 19th
Sphecodina abbottii May 9-19
Amphion floridensis June 9
Deidamia inscriptum April 24
Darapsa myron June 6
Darapsa choerilus June 8 and August 2nd

Alleghany County:

Ceratomia amyntor larva was taken July 25th, 1978 from LaVale
Manduca jasminearum, July 15th, 1991 from the Green Ridge State Forest
Sphinx francki July 9th, 2001 from the Warrior Mtn. WMA

Wicomico County:

Paratrea plebeja August 16th, 1984 from Salisbury, August 20th @ H. Common in the Coastal Plain, not recorded west of the Piedmont.

Garrett County:

Sphinx eremitus August 12th, 1985 from the Big Run State Park
Sphinx gordius June 13th, 1988 from the Glades

Baltimore County:

Lapara coniferarum July 25th, 2003 from the Pretty Boy Reservoir

Worcester County:

Lapara bombycoides July 28th, 1998 from the Pocomoke State Forest

Somerset County:

Paonias astylus June 17th, 1993 from Deal Island WMA,
Carroll County:

Eumorpha achemon Hampstead, Caroll County

Calvert County:

Hyles lineata September 2nd, 1980 2 miles west of Chaneville