Lapara

Lapara Walker, 1856

Lapara Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 232; TS: Lapara bombycoides Walker
Ellema Clemens, 1859; J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 4 (2): 187; TS: Ellema harrisii Clemens
Exedrium Grote, 1882; New Checklist of North American Moths: 11; TS: Sphinx halicarnie Strecker

Lapara (Sphingini); [HMW], 17

Lapara bombycoides Walker, 1856 New Jersey - North Carolina, Nova Scotia - Saskatchewan. See [maps] Northern Pine Sphinx
- Lapara bombycoides Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 233; TL: Canada
- Ellema harrisii Clemens, 1859; J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 4 (2): 188; TL: Maine, New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Carolina
- Ellema pineum Lintner, [1872]; Entomogical Contributions, 37: pl. 8, f. 12-13; TL: New York
- Lapara bombycoides, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
- Lapara bombycoides, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
- Lapara bombycoides; [HMW]
Larva on Pinus [MNA21]
Lapara coniferarum (J. E. Smith, 1797) New Jersey, New York - Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia. See [maps] Southern Pine Sphinx
- Sphinx coniferarum J. E. Smith, 1797; in Smith & Abbot, Nat. Hist. Rarer Lepid. Ins. Georgia 1: 83, pl. 42; TL: Georgia
- Sphinx cana Martyn, 1797; Psyche: pl. 19, f. 46
- Sphinx halicarnie Strecker, 1880; Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 3: 35; TL: Florida
- Lapara coniferarum, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
- Lapara coniferarum, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
- Lapara coniferarum; Brou, 1994, J. Lep. Soc. 48 (1): 52, f. 1C-D; [HMW]
Larva on Pinus , P. palustris, P. taeda [MNA21]
Lapara halicarnie (Strecker, 1880)
- Lapara halicarnie; [HMW]
Lapara phaeobrachycerous Brou, 1994 Mississippi. See [maps] Gulf Pine Sphinx
- Lapara phaeobrachycerous Brou, 1994; J. Lep. Soc. 48 (1): 51, f. 1A-B; TL: Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish
- Lapara phaeobrachycerous, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
- Lapara phaeobrachycerous, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
- Lapara phaeobrachycerous; [HMW]

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References:

[BAMONA] Opler, Pavulaan, Stanford & Pogue
Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node
[JLS]
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society; the original J. Lep. Soc. articles
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

Some related literature:

Brou, 1994
A new species of Lapara (Sphingidae) from southeastern United States J. Lep. Soc. 48 (1): 51-57
Clemens, 1859
Synopsis of the North American Sphingides J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 4 (2): 97-190
[MNA21]; Hodges, 1971
SPHINGOIDEA Moths America N of Mexico 21
[HMW]; Kitching & Cadiou, 2000
An annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) Hawkmoths of the World
Martyn, 1797
Figures of non-descript lepidopterous insects, or rare moths and butterflies from different parts of the world Psyche: [32 pls]
Walker, 1856
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 1-271 (1856)

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