This website would not be possible without the help of many people. We have a network of citizen scientists, researchers, and hobbyists who have supplied us with pupae, eggs, or larvae of Sphingidae as well as incredible personal observations and photographs. We sincerely thank everyone who contributes photographs, livestock, and other data to this website.
We are always looking for more collaborators, if you are interested, shoot us an email: sphingidaeusa@gmail.com. Please note, if you wish to send us livestock, you must be located in the continental USA.
Acknowledgements:
Dan Montagna: A co-author of this website and an incredible scientist and talented tech person who helped fix all of the assorted technological problems that were inevitably encountered and coding some of the features.
Stephen Kloiber: A co-author of this website who helped tirelessly to get this site up and running and still helps tirelessly today. He helps rear many of the species depicted on this website.
Jon Mularczyk: A fantastic photographer who has helped us rear many, many species and has photographed just as many.
Jocelyn Dexter: A talented citizen-scientist who has helped in numerous behind the scenes ways and continues to help collect and organize data.
Ashley Bosarge: A fantastic naturalist with a knack for finding caterpillars, Ashley has supplied us with countless images, livestock, and data for this project. Ashley has helped us immensely with documentation of the larval forms of Eumorpha intermedia.
Kate Farkas: A wonderful naturalist who has found and supplied us with a number of caterpillars as well as data. Kate also is credited in the discovery of two new larval forms of Ceratomia hageni.
Last Page Edit: 12/06/2022
We are always looking for more collaborators, if you are interested, shoot us an email: sphingidaeusa@gmail.com. Please note, if you wish to send us livestock, you must be located in the continental USA.
Acknowledgements:
Dan Montagna: A co-author of this website and an incredible scientist and talented tech person who helped fix all of the assorted technological problems that were inevitably encountered and coding some of the features.
Stephen Kloiber: A co-author of this website who helped tirelessly to get this site up and running and still helps tirelessly today. He helps rear many of the species depicted on this website.
Jon Mularczyk: A fantastic photographer who has helped us rear many, many species and has photographed just as many.
Jocelyn Dexter: A talented citizen-scientist who has helped in numerous behind the scenes ways and continues to help collect and organize data.
Ashley Bosarge: A fantastic naturalist with a knack for finding caterpillars, Ashley has supplied us with countless images, livestock, and data for this project. Ashley has helped us immensely with documentation of the larval forms of Eumorpha intermedia.
Kate Farkas: A wonderful naturalist who has found and supplied us with a number of caterpillars as well as data. Kate also is credited in the discovery of two new larval forms of Ceratomia hageni.
Last Page Edit: 12/06/2022
sources
Please find here a list of citations used throughout this website (on all the species pages, the hostplant index, everywhere!). If there is a number in parenthesis in the text of the site, it corresponds directly to a source here.
1: Personal Observations made by authors Teá Kesting-Handly and Stephen Kloiber
2: Tuttle, James P., and Margaret A. Rutledge. The Hawk Moths of North America: a Natural History Study of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 2007.
3: Wagner, David L. Caterpillars of Eastern North America: a Guide to Identification and Natural History. Princeton University Press, 2005.
4: BugGuide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
5: Bill Ohelke, “Sphingidae of the Americas”: http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/Sphinx/usatable.htm
6: Lotts, Kelly and Thomas Naberhaus, coordinators. 2017. Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA). http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
7: Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosts.
8: Schmidt, B. Christian (2018). Cryptic species among bumblebee mimics: an unrecognized Hemaris hawkmoth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in eastern North America; Zootaxa 4399 (1): 032–048, 2018
Cite: 1502107
9: Schmidt, B. Christian (2009). Hemaris thetis (Boisduval, 1855) (Sphingidae) is a Distinct Species. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 63(2), 2009, 100-109.
10: Hodges, Ronald W. The Moths of America North of Mexico. Including Greenland. Sphingoidea (Fascicle 21). E.W. Classey Limited and R.B.D. Publications Inc., 1971.
11: Sam Jaffe (The Caterpillar Lab) Observations, 2009; Massachusetts Lepidoptera “MassLep”, Google Group. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/masslep/nZXX1J94Hxs/VrvqZYSPWHgJ
12: Rare, Declining, and Poorly Known Butterflies and Moths of Forests and Woodlands in the Eastern United States By Dale F. Schweitzer, Marc C. Minno, David L. Wagner. U.S. Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, FHTET-2011-01. , 2011. Cite: 613824
13: Brou Jr., Vernon A. 2011. Second Addendum to the Sphingidae of Louisiana. Southern Lepidopterists’ Society News. 33: 140-144
14: Jean Haxaire - Personal Communication
15: Kitching, I.J. 2018. Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory, http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/
16: Vernon A. Brou Jr. - Personal Communication
17: Campbell, Matthew - Personal Observations
18: Bosarge, Ashley - Personal Observations