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title: "Esfinge de pintas rosadas"
description: "Agrius cingulata — Insectos y arañas. Agrius cingulata, the pink-spotted hawkmoth or sweetpotato hornworm, is a moth in the family Sphingidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/pink-spotted-hawkmoth
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Esfinge de pintas rosadas

> Agrius cingulata — Insectos y arañas. Agrius cingulata, the pink-spotted hawkmoth or sweetpotato hornworm, is a moth in the family Sphingidae.

- Scientific name: *Agrius cingulata*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 9402
- Wikidata: [Q310189](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310189)
- iNaturalist taxon: [119086](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/119086)

## Names

- en: Pink-spotted Hawkmoth
- de: Süßkartoffelschwärmer
- es: Esfinge de pintas rosadas
- it: Agrius cingulatus
- pt: Agrius cingulatus
- pl: Agrius cingulatus

## Countries with the most observations

US (4983), MX (1670), BR (668), EC (284), CO (167), AR (150), CR (124), PE (58), PA (56), HN (49), TT (49), VE (44)

## Summary

Agrius cingulata, the pink-spotted hawkmoth or sweetpotato hornworm, is a moth in the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775.

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

## Photo

![Esfinge de pintas rosadas](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pink-spotted-hawkmoth/medium.jpg)

Photo: Alan Jeon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332113265

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pink-spotted-hawkmoth?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).