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Sphinx Moth
Acosmeryx sp
-33.3817, 151.484
Field Notes
Description:
6cm wide leafy moth with grey brown and brown pattern on the fore wings and red brown on the rear. Underside is pinkish
Habitat:
light bollard beside apartment gardens at night. In an area of suburbia surrounded by exotics and remnant coastal dry forest as well as swamp
Notes:
#leafy leaf moth, a lot of the moths online look similar but still looking
I am claiming this is one of the Hawk Moths although it is only known far north of here. Changed to Sphinx moth and with the genus only
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedOctober 12, 2013
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