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Mournful Sphinx
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Butterflies & moths

Mournful Sphinx

Enyo lugubris Linnaeus, 1771

Names

EnglishMournful Sphinx
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese—
Sranan Tongokapelka (general name for the group)
Scientific nameEnyo lugubris Linnaeus, 1771

About this species

Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the West Indies through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from Arizona east to Florida and north to South Carolina. Strays have been recorded from Arkansas, north to Illinois, Michigan and New York.

The wingspan is 50–60 mm.

Adults are on wing year-round in the tropics (including southern Florida and Louisiana). Further north, they are on wing from August to November.

The larvae probably feed on Vitus tiliifolia and other Vitaceae species, such as Vitis, Cissus and Ampelopsis. In Florida larvae have been reported on Cissus sicyoides and Ampelopsis arborea.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilySphingidae
GenusEnyo

In Suriname

13Records in Suriname
13iNaturalist observations
1963First record
2025Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Brokopondo6
  • Sipaliwini2
  • Paramaribo1

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

Records by month

All years combined.

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