Streaked sphinx
The streaked sphinx is a big hawk moth from the warm lowlands of the Americas. Its wings can stretch wider than a grown-up's hand. In Costa Rica you can find it flying all year round.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 11 to 13 centimetres across.
In Florida it flies in March and again in June and July.
Its caterpillars have been found on cashew trees, which give us cashew nuts.
It lives in warm lowlands from Florida all the way down to Argentina.
Most asked questions about Streaked sphinx
?How big is the streaked sphinx?
Its wings are about 11 to 13 centimetres across.
?Where does the streaked sphinx live?
In warm lowlands from Florida and the West Indies through Central America to Argentina.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Protambulyx strigilis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1771
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Protambulyx strigilis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by pondhawk. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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