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I listen to a radio show late at night and one of the listeners sent these pics of a moth they saw in their back yard. She said she calls it her "dragon moth"… and in all fairness it DOES kind of resemble one! They live in Shenendoah Valley, VA. I see a couple of moths that look similar… but am unsure… is this a type of Sphinx moth?
As much as we like and would endorse the name Dragon Moth for the Spotted Apatelodes, we are in no position to apply for a name change. Spotted Apatelodes isn’t quite as descriptive as Dragon Moth. Though it resembles a Sphinx Moth, the Spotted Apatelodes, Apatelodes torrefacta, is actually one of the Silkworm Moths in the family Bombycidae.
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