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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Sphinx Moths
  7. Xylophanes
  8. Tersa Sphinx
  9. Supported by
  10. Caterpillar hosts

Caterpillar hosts for Tersa Sphinx

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Rough Buttonweed Hexasepalum teres 3 records
  • American Persimmon Diospyros virginiana 2 records
  • Buttonweed Diodia virginiana 1 record
  • Smooth False Buttonweed Spermacoce glabra 1 record
  • Firecrackerbush Bouvardia ternifolia 1 record on hummingbird flower
  • Woodland False Buttonweed Spermacoce remota 1 record on false buttonweeds
  • Slimjim Bean Phaseolus filiformis keystone 1 record on beans
  • Thicket Bean Phaseolus polystachios keystone 1 record on beans
  • Prostrate False Buttonweed Spermacoce prostrata 1 record on false buttonweeds
  • Everglades Key False Buttonweed Spermacoce neoterminalis 1 record on false buttonweeds
  • Boerne Bean Phaseolus texensis 1 record on beans
  • Spermacoce keyensis 1 record on false buttonweeds

Not native to the US

1 plant, most recorded first.

  • Maize Zea mays 2 records · introduced

Nativity unknown

4 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Shrubby False Buttonweed Spermacoce verticillata 5 records
  • Lima Bean Phaseolus lunatus 2 records
  • Clustered Fanpetals Sida glomerata 1 record
  • Gum Eucalyptus 1 record · genus

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