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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Sphinx Moths
  7. Xylophanes
  8. Tersa Sphinx
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What supports Tersa Sphinx

28 native plants
support it in the US
12 caterpillar hosts 16 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Rough Buttonweed Hexasepalum teres
  • American Persimmon Diospyros virginiana
  • Buttonweed Diodia virginiana
  • Smooth False Buttonweed Spermacoce glabra
  • Firecrackerbush Bouvardia ternifolia on hummingbird flower
  • Woodland False Buttonweed Spermacoce remota on false buttonweeds
  • Slimjim Bean Phaseolus filiformis keystone on beans
  • Thicket Bean Phaseolus polystachios keystone on beans
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Tievine Ipomoea cordatotriloba
  • Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis
  • American Black Elderberry Sambucus canadensis
  • Firewheel Gaillardia pulchella
  • Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
  • Coralberry Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
  • Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana
  • Virginia Spiderwort Tradescantia virginiana
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