Cautethia spuria
| Spurious sphinx | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Cautethia |
| Species: | C. spuria
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| Cautethia spuria | |
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Cautethia spuria, the spurious sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875. It lives from Mexico to Costa Rica to southern Texas and Oklahoma on the North American continent.
References
[edit]- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cautethia spuria.
- Lotts, Kelly & Naberhaus, Thomas (2017). "Spurious sphinx Cautethia spuria (Boisduval, 1875)". Butterflies and Moths of North America. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- Cautethia spuria Sphingidae of the Americas
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