Aellopos titan, the Titan sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777.
| Titan sphinx | |
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| A. t. titan in the Pantanal, Brazil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Aellopos |
| Species: | A. titan
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| Aellopos titan | |
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Distribution
editIt has been found all the way from Maine in the United States through Central America and south to Argentina and Uruguay in South America.
Description
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Female dorsal -
Female ventral
Subspecies
edit- Aellopos titan titan - Brazil
- Aellopos titan cubana (Clark, 1936) - Cuba
References
edit- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ "Aellopos titan". Silkmoths. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
External links
edit- Lotts, Kelly & Naberhaus, Thomas (2017). "Titan sphinx Aellopos titan (Cramer, 1777)". Butterflies and Moths of North America. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
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