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title: "Polilla esfinge de rayas blancas"
description: "Hyles lineata — Insectos y arañas. Hyles lineata, also known as the white-lined sphinx moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/white-lined-sphinx
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Polilla esfinge de rayas blancas

> Hyles lineata — Insectos y arañas. Hyles lineata, also known as the white-lined sphinx moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.

- Scientific name: *Hyles lineata*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: `urban` (Ciudades y jardines)
- iNaturalist observations: 79213
- Wikidata: [Q282160](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q282160)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49348](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49348)

## Names

- en: White-lined Sphinx
- de: Neuweltlicher Linienschwärmer
- es: Polilla esfinge de rayas blancas
- fr: Sphinx à lignes blanches

## Countries with the most observations

US (71667), MX (4013), CA (869), EC (145), PE (56), AR (55), CO (28), DO (25), PR (19), JM (16), HN (9), CL (8)

## Summary

Hyles lineata, also known as the white-lined sphinx moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. They are sometimes known as a "hummingbird moth" because of their bird-like size (2–3 inch wingspan) and flight patterns.
As caterpillars, they have a wide range of color phenotypes but show consistent adult coloration. With a wide geographic range throughout Central and North America, H. lineata is known to feed on many different host plants as caterpillars and pollinate a variety of flowers as adults.
Larvae are powerful eaters and are known to form massive groupings capable of damaging crops and gardens. As adults, they…

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

## Photo

![Polilla esfinge de rayas blancas](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-lined-sphinx/medium.jpg)

Photo: Zoltán Stekkelpak · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/187579473

## Machine access

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