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title: "Mournful Sphinx"
description: "Enyo lugubris — Insects & spiders. Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/mournful-sphinx
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mournful Sphinx

> Enyo lugubris — Insects & spiders. Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the  family Sphingidae.

- Scientific name: *Enyo lugubris*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8140
- Wikidata: [Q1315364](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1315364)
- iNaturalist taxon: [81750](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/81750)

## Names

- en: Mournful Sphinx

## Countries with the most observations

US (5993), BR (437), MX (247), CO (135), DO (70), CR (60), EC (49), TT (27), PR (26), JM (24), BO (19), AR (18)

## Summary

Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the  family Sphingidae. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the West Indies through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from Arizona east to Florida and north to South Carolina. Strays have been recorded from Arkansas, north to Illinois, Michigan and New York.
The wingspan is 50–60 mm.
Adults are on wing year-round in the tropics (including southern Florida and Louisiana). Further…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enyo_lugubris

## Photo

![Mournful Sphinx](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mournful-sphinx/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jana Miller · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/320074748

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mournful-sphinx?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).