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, 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.

Phylum:Arthropoda

Clade:Pancrustacea

Class:Insecta

Order:Lepidoptera

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Mournful sphinx
Enyo lugubris female dorsal
Enyo lugubris female ventral
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Enyo
Species:	E. lugubris
Binomial name
Enyo lugubris (Linnaeus, 1771)[1]
Synonyms
Sphinx lugubris Linnaeus, 1771 Sphinx fegeus Cramer, 1779 Epistor luctuosus Boisduval, 1875 Epistor lugubris delanoi Kernbach, 1962

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The wingspan is 50–60 mm.^[3]

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.