Updated as per personal communication with Michael Van Buskirk (southeastern Arizona); May 20, 2019

Lintneria smithi
(Cadiou, 1998) Sphinx

Lintneria smithi male, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Sphinginae, Latreille, 1802
Tribe: Sphingini, Latreille, 1802
Genus: Lintneria Butler, 1876
Species: smithi (Cadiou, 1998)

Lintneria smithi female, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

Lintneria smithi female, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

Lintneria smithi fourth instar, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

Lintneria smithi fourth instar, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

Lintneria smithi fifth instar, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

Lintneria smithi fifth instar, southeastern Arizona,
courtesy of Michael D. Van Buskirk.

Please visit my special request for images of Lintneria species larvae at Lintneria larvae, and help if you can.

It is believed that all "Lintneria larvae will exhibit "a fleshy thoracic dorsal "horn" in the first 4 instars (unique in the Sphingidae of the world to my knowledge) which is replaced by a thoracic dorsal "hump" with a large black patch in the 5th instar." J.A. Tuttle.

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