Erinnyis ello

TaxID: 325935

Basic Information

Erinnyis ello

Cassava Hornworm, Ello Sphinx

Erinnyis ello, the ello sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed from Argentina through Central America to the United States as far north as Nevada. The ello sphinx can be parasitized by the braconid wasp Microplitis figueresi.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Sphingidae

Erinnyis

ello

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Royal Tyler@BY-NC-SA
Erinnyis ello
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(c) Wayne Fidler@BY-NC
Erinnyis ello
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(c) MetalBull@BY-NC
Erinnyis ello
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(c) Edgar Segovia@BY-NC
Erinnyis ello
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(c) Aaron Tjelmeland@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Larva with a large eyespot on the dorsal thorax divided by a thin vertical line. Abdomen gray with horizontal black lines and a median gray line dividing those.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Larva Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (4 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Sri Lanka Quarantine pests —
Mozambique Quarantine pests —
Malaysia Quarantine pests —
Thailand Quarantine pests —

Distribution (47 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Present —
Aruba Present —
Anguilla Present —
Argentina Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
Bermuda Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present
Barbados Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature