Sphinx: nm The sphinx of the vine or large sphinx of the vine is a lepidopteran insect of the family Sphindidae and the genus Deilephila (to be compared to the small sphinx of the vine, Deilephila porcellus or small pig). This large moth with a large dimension (65 mm) is, almost uniquely, able to distinguish colors at night. These are its caterpillars appearing from July to September which polyphagous, attack the vine leaves.
At the end of the XNUMXth century, an entomol...
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