Paonias myops

Taxobox
name = Small-Eyed Sphinx


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Adult specimen
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Macrolepidoptera
superfamilia = Bombycoidea
familia = Sphingidae
subfamilia = Sphinginae
genus = "Paonias"
species = "P. myops"
binomial = "Paonias myops"
binomial_authority = (J.E. Smith, 1797)

The small-eyed sphinx ("Paonias myops") is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Adult moths are nocturnal than most sphingids; after an initial bout of activity after dusk, they fly throughout the night (Fullard & Napoleone 2001).

References

* Fullard, James H. & Napoleone, Nadia (2001): Diel flight periodicity and the evolution of auditory defences in the Macrolepidoptera. "Animal Behaviour" 62(2): 349–368. doi|10.1006/anbe.2001.1753 [http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3full/reprints/FullNapolDielAB.pdf PDF fulltext]

External links

* [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/usa/1089.htm Small-Eyed Sphinx] Moths of America