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Field Notes

Description:

Moth

Notes:

About 3 inches from wingtip to wingtip.

Species ID Suggestions

Sphinx Moth

Hyles lineata

White-lined sphimx

Hyles lineata

Comments (2)

This is a white-lined Sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyles_lineata
Interesting spotting Rbngdfello,congrats ,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah. The photo is a bit fozy,but i think it is possible to ID,however the ideal is to have the best photo we can so the ID process can be easier :-) I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-) You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users. There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings. Attention when join local missions http://www.projectnoah.org/missions they have a range that is in the mission map,see first that before join.you only can submit spotting in a mission if the photos where taken inside the mission range. Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2013

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