Darapsa myron, the Virginia Creeper Sphinx

Darapsa myron
dagh-RAP-suhmmMY-ron
(Cramer, 1779) Sphinx
The Virginia Creeper Sphinx

Darapsa myron, Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin,
May 18, 2003, courtesy of Janice Stiefel.

Darapsa myron fourth instar, Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin,
May 18, 2003, courtesy of Janice Stiefel.

Darapsa myron fifth instar, Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin,
May 18, 2003, courtesy of Janice Stiefel.

Janice reports she found the fourth instar larva on grape foliage in August of 2002. Just before it was ready to pupate, it took on the rosy hue. The pupa was overwintered in her fruit cellar, and the moth emerged the following spring.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Macroglossini, Harris, 1839
Genus: Darapsa Walker, 1856
Species: myron (Cramer, 1780)........

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