''Pachylia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s in the family
Sphingidae. The genus was erected by
Francis Walker in 1856.
Species
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Pachylia darceta''
H. Druce, 1881
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Pachylia ficus
''Pachylia ficus'', known as the fig sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It lives from the northern tip of South America in Uruguay through Central America to the southern tip of the United States straying into Arizona and Texas.
Descr ...
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( Linnaeus, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
)
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Pachylia syces''
(Hübner __NOTOC__
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The name means an agricultural worker, a farmer, possibly and specifically one who worked a "hube", which was a piece of land roughly equivalent to the English measuremen ...
, 1819)
Pachylia darceta MHNT CUT 2010 0 340 French Guiana, female.jpg, ''Pachylia darceta''
Pachylia ficus MHNT.jpg, ''Pachylia ficus''
Pachylia syces MHNT CUT 2010 0 519 Rio Bamba Equateur - male.jpg, ''Pachylia syces''
References
Dilophonotini
Sphingidae of South America
Moths of South America
Moth genera
Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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