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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Sphinx Moths
  7. Primrose Sphinxes
  8. Phaeton Primrose Sphinx
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What supports Phaeton Primrose Sphinx

12 native plants
support it in the US
9 caterpillar hosts 3 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

9 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Tall Evening Primrose Oenothera elata
  • California Sun Cup Camissoniopsis bistorta
  • Bigelow's Tickseed Leptosyne bigelovii
  • Fragrant Evening Primrose Oenothera cespitosa on evening-primroses
  • Birdcage Evening Primrose Oenothera deltoides on evening-primroses
  • California Evening Primrose Oenothera avita on evening-primroses
  • Desert Evening-primrose Oenothera primiveris on evening-primroses
  • South American Evening Primrose Oenothera pubescens on evening-primroses
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Nectar plants All

3 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Desert Sand Verbena Abronia villosa
  • Browneyes Chylismia claviformis
  • Spanish Needle Palafoxia arida

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