Mournful sphinx

Enyo lugubris

''Enyo lugubris'', the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, 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.
Mournful Sphinx (Enyo lugubris) At a 365 + 395 nm UV light at a mixed forest edge
 Enyo lugubris,Geotagged,Mournful sphinx,Summer,United States

Appearance

The wingspan is 50–60 mm. The body and wings are dark brown. The forewing has a large black patch covering most of the outer half of the wing. There is a pale tan cell spot, and a fairly straight median line to the inside of the cell spot.

Adults are on wing year round in the tropics. Further north, they are on wing from August to November.
S P L I T W I G  Ecuador,Enyo lugubris,Geotagged,Mournful sphinx,Winter

Naming

*''Enyo lugubris lugubris''
⤷ ''Enyo lugubris delanoi''

Distribution

Strays have been recorded from Arkansas, north to Illinois, Michigan and New York.

Food

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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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilySphingidae
GenusEnyo
SpeciesE. lugubris