Erinnyis ello

Ello sphinx
	Male - MHNT
	Male underside - MHNT
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Erinnyis
Species:	E. ello
Binomial name
	Erinnyis ello; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Sphinx ello Linnaeus, 1758; Erinnyis cinifera Zikán, 1934; Erinnyis ello omorfia (Mooser, 1942);

Erinnyis ello, the ello sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed from Argentina through Central America to the United States as far north as Nevada.

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The ello sphinx can be parasitized by the braconid wasp Microplitis figueresi.^[2]

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