White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)

White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)

This nice-looking moth species is the White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata).  It is a member of the Sphinx Moth (Sphingidae) family.  I photographed this individual in a residential area of Westminster, Colorado, on the side of a building next to a small flower garden.  

The species entry on Butterflies and Moths of North America, an authoritative Web site about Lepidoptera, says that the adult White-lined Sphinx Moths feed on the nectar of flowers.  Among the flowers listed were columbine and honeysuckle -- two of the flowers that were growing in the garden that was just a meter away from where the moth was resting.

Here is an earlier post with a photo of an Oleander Hawk Moth, also a member of the Sphingidae family.

White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)