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Walnut Sphinx Moth

 

Other Name(s): Sphinx Moth; Hawkmoth

Characteristics: Native to deciduous woodlands, Walnut Sphinx Moths are highly common throughout Missouri with limited appearances in certain portions of other states east of the Rocky Mountains.

Colors of the Walnut Sphinx Moth differ from sample to sample so this makes identification of this species a bit more challenging than one would like. Overall, they maintain a light or dark brown coloring with bands of white or even pink. The patterns along the wings may or may not appear highly visible at first. With wings extended, these insects tend to take on a more rectangular shape when viewed from above. Their antenna are comb-like and their bodies appeared to be covered in a thick hair with the exception of their leg ends.

Adult Walnut Sphinx Moths do not feed and produce in a single brood in the northern states, between May and August, while producing two broods in the south, from March through October.

Walnut Sphinx Moth caterpillars host inside of walnut, butternut, hickory, alder, beech, hazelnut and hop-hornbeam. They may make "squeaking" sounds when disturbed.


General Adult Size (Length):
45mm to 75mm (1.77in to 2.95in)

Identifying Colors: brown; white; pink

North American reach includes (may not be limited to): Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; New York; New Jersey; Maryland; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; Delaware; Pennsylvania; West Virginia; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia; Kentucky; Tennessee; Ohio; Michigan; Illinois; Missouri; Arkansas; Mississippi; Louisiana; Alabama; Texas; Oklahoma; Kansas; Minnesota; Wisconsin; Iowa; Nebraska

Category: Butterfly or Moth
Common Name: Walnut Sphinx Moth
Scientific Name: (Amorpha juglandis)

Kingdom: Animalia
  Phylum
: Arthropoda
   Class:
Insecta
    Order
: Lepidoptera
     Family: Sphingidae
      Genus: Amorpha
       Species: juglandis


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Picture of Walnut Sphinx Moth
Courtesy of Leland A. from WA

Pic of Walnut Sphinx Moth
Courtesy of Harold of Florida, USA

Image of Walnut Sphinx Moth
Courtesy of Harold of Florida, USA

Photo of Walnut Sphinx Moth
Courtesy of Harold of Florida, USA

Picture of Walnut Sphinx Moth
Courtesy of Harold of Florida, USA

Image of Walnut Sphinx Moth
Courtesy of Harold of Florida, USA
     

 

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