Sphinx morio

Sphinx morio, the larch hawk moth or Asian pine hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.^[2] It is found in Russia, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and China.

Larch hawk moth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Sphinx
Species:	S. morio
Binomial name
Sphinx morio (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)[1]
Synonyms
Hyloicus morio Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sphinx laricis Rozkhov, 1972 Hyloicus morio inouei Owada & Kogi, 1992 Hyloicus morio arestus Jordan, 1931 Hyloicus morio heilongjiangensis Zhao & Zhang, 1992 Sphinx caligineus hakodoensis O. Bang-Haas, 1936

The wingspan is 60–80 mm.

The larvae feed on Picea (including Picea asperata and Picea jezoensis), Larix (including Larix kaempferi, Larix sibirica, and Larix gmelinii var. olgensis), Pinus (including Pinus sibirica, Pinus sylvestris, Pinus koraiensis, Pinus densiflora, Pinus thunbergii and Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) and Abies species (including Abies fabri). In the Altai, it can be a major pest of Pinus sylvestris, sometimes causing complete defoliation of large areas.

Subspecies

• Sphinx morio morio (Honshu in Japan)^[3]
• Sphinx morio arestus (Jordan, 1931) (central Russia and the Altai eastward through Mongolia and northeastern China, to Primorskiy Kray, Sakhalin Island, the Korean Peninsula and Tsushima in Japan)^[4]
• Sphinx morio inouei (Owada & Kogi, 1992) (northern Hokkaido in Japan)^[5]