Pachysphinx modesta, the Modest Sphinx

Pachysphinx modesta
PACK-kih-sfinksMmuh-DES-tuh
(Harris, 1839) Smerinthus

Pachysphinx modesta female, at light at Xavier High School, Linn County, Iowa,
July 19, 2011, Tom Jantcher Thomas Jantscher.

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