Sphinx vashti

Taxobox
name = Vashti Sphinx


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Sphinx vashti", adult
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Sphingidae
genus = "Sphinx"
species = "S. vashti"
binomial = "Sphinx vashti"

binomial_authority = Strecker, 1878

The Vashti Sphinx ("Sphinx vashti") is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It's identification is highly variable. The forewing ranges from pale to very dark gray with paler gray at the base of the costa, the wing tip, and on the outer margin. A series of black dashes ends with the topmost one reaching the wing tip. The hindwing is black with white bands. There is one brood per year. The species range from British Columbia east to Manitoba, south to southern California, Nevada, central Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas.

Larva feed on:
*Snowberry ("Symphoricarpos albus")
*Coralberry ("Symphoricarpos orbiculatus")

External links

* [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/usa/1128.htm Vashti Sphinx] Moths of America
* [http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/svashti.htm Life Cycle]