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Australian Striped Hawk Moth

Hyles livornicoides

Classification

Class
Insecta

The Australian striped hawk moth (Hyles livornicoides) is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by the Scottish-born Australian medical practitioner, naturalist, author, philosopher and utopianist; Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1892. H. livornicoides was once a common food source for the Arrente community in Central Australia, however is not consumed anymore due to their sacredness and increasing scarcity.

Distribution

(c) Donald Hobern, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1