[birdky] No bird sighting. Caterpillar ID.
- From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 16:20:28 -0500
Thank you everyone who wanted to see and wanted to try to ID the caterpillar.
I submitted it to bugguide.net.
The response I got was:
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Bombycoidea
Family Sphingidae (Sphinx Moths)
Subfamily Macroglossinae
Tribe Macroglossini
Genus Eumorpha
Species fasciatus (Banded Sphinx - Hodges#7865)
I have searched under the criteria Banded Sphinx on in the internet and really
have not been able
to find a picture that is like mine. But, apparently it is quite variable in
appearance.
When I searched for Eumorpha fasciatus caterpillar pictures I got several that
are close.
See: http://www.treknature.com/gallery/North_America/Mexico/photo65914.htm
among others.
I was amazed at the requests for the image I shot.
Charlie
Henderson Co.
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