The Sphingidae of Louisiana

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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.

Special thanks goes to Vernon A. Brou for his extensive research and records regarding the Sphingidae of Louisiana.

NEW! Visit http://entomology.lsu.edu/lsam/Brou.htm for links to many of Vernon's published articles.

Jeff Trahan sends the following images of Aellopos titan, Caddo Parish, October 14, 2009. This species probably occurs only as a fall stray.

Aellopos titan, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
Ocotber 14, 2009, courtesy of Jeff Trahan.

Aellopos titan, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
Ocotber 14, 2009, courtesy of Jeff Trahan.

Sphinginae subfamily Sphingini tribe: Agrius cingulata T Ceratomia amyntor T Ceratomia catalpae T Ceratomia hageni rare T Ceratomia undulosa T Dolba hyloeus T Isoparce cupressi ab NW Lapara coniferarum EXT E Lapara phaeobrachycerous S 1/2 Lintneria eremitus rare E 1/4 Manduca jasminearum T wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Manduca quinquemaculatus T Manduca rustica T Manduca sexta T Paratrea plebeja T Sphinx franckii rare NE 1/3 Sphinx kalmiae E 1/2 Smerinthini tribe: Amorpha juglandis T Pachysphinx modesta N 1/2 Paonias astylus E 1/2 Paonias excaecata T Paonias myops T Smerinthus jamaicensis T

Macroglossinae subfamily Dilophonotini tribe:mm Aellopos titan stray Enyo lugubris S 2/3 Erinnyis ello rare Erinnyis obscura rare Hemaris thysbe T Hemaris diffinis T Pachylia ficus rare, stray Pseudosphinx tetrio rare, stray Philampelini tribe:mm Eumorpha achemon T Eumorpha fasciatus SE 3/4 Eumorpha intermedia SE 2/3 Eumorpha labruscae stray Eumorpha pandorus T Eumorpha vitis rare stray Macroglossini tribe: Amphion floridensis T Darapsa choerilus T Darapsa myron T Darapsa versicolor T Deidamia inscriptum T Hyles lineata T Proserpinus gaurae rare T Sphecodina abbottii T Xylophanes pluto stray Xylophanes tersa T Return to Index by Nation Return to U. S. A. Table Return to Main Sphingidae Index

Eumorpha fasciata, Jean Lafitte National Park, Lafitte Louisiana, Saturday, 9/25/04,
courtesy of Ronnie Gaubert, copyright.

Below are links to parish by parish pictoral checklists.

Only those parishes/cities indicated in red are currently active.

Please help me improve this site by sending sighting data (species; location [county]; date) to Bill Oehlke.

Other pictoral checklists will be posted as sightings arrive.

Individual notes for northwestern parishes:

Caddo Blenville Sabine

Bossier Jackson Vernon

Webster Red River Grant

Claiborne Nachitoches Rapides

Lincoln Winn

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Individual notes for northeastern parishes:

Union Richland LaSalle

Morehouse Madison Catahoula

W. Carroll Caldwell Concordia

E. Carroll Franklin Avoyelles

Ouachita Tensas

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Individual notes for southwestern parishes:

Beauregard Jefferson Davis

Allen Acadia

Evangeline Lafayette

St. Landry Cameron

Calcasieu Vermillion

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Individual notes for southeastern parishes:

Pointe Coupee St. Helena St. Martin Iberia Lafourche

West Feliciana Tangipahoa Iberville Assumption St. Charles

East Feliciana Washington Ascension St. Mary Jefferson

West Baton Rouge Livingston St. James St. Martin Orleans

East Baton Rouge St. Tammany St. John the Baptist Terrebonne St. Bernard Plaquemines

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Thumbnail checklists for northwestern parishes (LARVAE):

Caddo Blenville Sabine

Bossier Jackson Vernon

Webster Red River Grant

Claiborne Nachitoches Rapides

Lincoln Winn

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Thumbnail checklists for northeastern parishes (LARVAE):

Union Richland LaSalle

Morehouse Madison Catahoula

W. Carroll Caldwell Concordia

E. Carroll Franklin Avoyelles

Ouachita Tensas

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Thumbnail checklists for southwestern parishes (LARVAE):

Beauregard Jefferson Davis

Allen Acadia

Evangeline Lafayette

St. Landry Cameron

Calcasieu Vermillion

Thumbnail checklists for southeastern parishes (LARVAE):

Pointe Coupee St. Helena St. Martin Iberia Lafourche

West Feliciana Tangipahoa Iberville Assumption St. Charles

East Feliciana Washington Ascension St. Mary Jefferson

West Baton Rouge Livingston St. James St. Martin Orleans

East Baton Rouge St. Tammany St. John the Baptist Terrebonne St. Bernard Plaquemines

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