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Azalea Sphinx

Darapsa pholus

Plate III — Azalea Sphinx is Fig. 3
Plate III — Azalea Sphinx is Fig. 3

This medium-sized hawkmoth, which is one of our commonest species in western Pennsylvania, may easily be distinguished from its very near ally, D. myron, by its reddish color. The caterpillar feeds upon Viburnum and Azalea.