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Alope Sphinx
Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Butterflies & moths

Alope Sphinx

Erinnyis alope Drury, 1773

Names

EnglishAlope Sphinx
Dutch—
SpanishPolilla de la Papaya
Chinese—
Sranan Tongokapelka (general name for the group)
Scientific nameErinnyis alope Drury, 1773

About this species

Erinnyis alope, the Alope sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It lives from the northern part of South America, through Central America, up to Northern Mexico and the very south of the United States, although strays have been recorded as far north as Arkansas and Kansas.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilySphingidae
GenusErinnyis

In Suriname

6Records in Suriname
1iNaturalist observations
1955First record
2009Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Para1
  • Paramaribo1
  • Sipaliwini1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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