Aellopos

Aellopos
A. titan titan in flight The Pantanal, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Subtribe:	Dilophonotina
Genus:	Aellopos Hübner, [1819]

The genus Aellopos consists of large day-flying moths in the family Sphingidae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species in this genus occur from Maine in the United States through Central America and down to Argentina and Uruguay in South America.

Species

• Aellopos blaini (Herrich-Schaffer, 1869)
• Aellopos ceculus (Cramer, 1777)
• Aellopos clavipes (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) – clavipes sphinx moth
• Aellopos fadus (Cramer, 1775) – Fadus sphinx moth
• Aellopos tantalus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Tantalus sphinx moth
• Aellopos titan (Cramer, 1777) – Titan sphinx moth

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  Aellopos ceculus
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  Aellopos clavipes
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  Aellopos fadus
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  Aellopos tantalus
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  Aellopos titan

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