Sphinx adumbrata (Taxonomy)
Transferred to Sphinx by Mooser, 1940, An. Esc. nac. Cienc. biol. M├®xico1: 429.
Thorax upperside grey, with edges of collar and patagia black.Head upperside and palpi grey, with some black around the eyes.Abdomen upperside with a narrow, black mesial line; laterally broadly black, with 5 elliptical, pale yellow spots. Abdomen underside grey with a mesial black line. Forewing upperside grey, with a black basal patch on the hind margin; a black line in the discal cell close to the cubital vein; vein M2 black basally, the line continued into the discal cell; a prominent black apical line curving costad posterior to vein Rs4; black intervenosal lines between veins M1 & M2, M2 & M3, M3 & CuA1, CuA1 & CuA2, and, more narrowly CuA2 & 1A+2A; a faint, submarginal black line, most prominent between veins CuA1 & CuA2. Hindwing upperside grey with diffuse, dark, basal mesial and submarginal bands.