Biology:Erinnyis alope
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Short description: Species of moth
| Alope sphinx | |
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| Erinnyis alope ♂ | |
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| Erinnyis alope ♂ △ | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Erinnyis |
| Species: | E. alope
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| Binomial name | |
| Erinnyis alope (Drury, 1770)[1]
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Erinnyis alope, the Alope sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It lives from the northern part of South America, through Central America, up to Northern Mexico and the very south of the United States , although strays have been recorded as far north as Arkansas and Kansas .
Subspecies
- Erinnyis alope alope (from northern Argentina and Uruguay north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to southern Florida, southern Texas, southern New Mexico and southern Arizona)
- Erinnyis alope dispersa Kernbach, 1962 (Galapagos Islands)
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20121109181409/http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Erinnyis/alope.html. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
External links
- Alope Sphinx Moths of America
Wikidata ☰ Q1351375 entry
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