Lintneria biolleyi (Taxonomy)
Transferred to Sphinx by Kernbach, 1969, Dt. ent. Z. (N.F.) 16: 97. Transferred to Lintneria by Tuttle, 2007, The Hawkmoths of North America: 97.
Similar to Lintneria lugens, but differing in the details of pattern. Frons brown, vertex brown, shaded black posteriorly; collar black dorsally, laterally edged with a black line that continues to the tips of the patagia, and with a lateral brown and white colouration.Patagia and thorax upperside reddish brown, mottled with a few whitish scales.Abdomen upperside with a basal light brown tuft, with subdorsal black spots, and with alternating broad black and narrow white bands; two dorsal grey lines diverge and broaden towards the anal segments. Palpi brown, fringed with white basally.Abdomen underside white, with black ventral points. Forewing upperside brown, speckled with pale buff; a basal, double antemedian, median and postmedian angled black spots along the costa; black and white tufts at the base of the hind margin; an antemedian patch of pinkish buff scales posterior to the discal cell, cut by a fine black line; discal cell with a black streak, produced beyond the cell; black intervenosal streaks posterior to veins M1, M3 & CuA1; a convex postmedian fuscous band, with distal to it an indistinct, fine, fuscous, dentate line; a convex series of submarginal, angled, black lines between the veins; black apical line to vein M1, interrupted at vein Rs4; some small marginal black spots. Hindwing upperside largely black, with a antemedial whitish line curving basad at costal and hind margins, and a sinuous white postmedian band; fringe white, spotted with black. Wingspan 90 mm.