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title: "Tabakspijlstaart"
description: "Manduca sexta — Insecten en spinnen. Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the Americas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/carolina-sphinx
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tabakspijlstaart

> Manduca sexta — Insecten en spinnen. Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the Americas.

- Scientific name: *Manduca sexta*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 33801
- Wikidata: [Q1366539](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1366539)
- iNaturalist taxon: [61505](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61505)

## Names

- en: Carolina Sphinx
- de: Tabakschwärmer
- es: Polilla del cuerno del tabaco
- fr: Sphinx du tabac
- nl: Tabakspijlstaart

## Countries with the most observations

US (28790), CA (1165), MX (628), PR (36), CR (25), HN (14), PA (14), CU (10), NI (8), BL (5), BS (5), BZ (4)

## Summary

Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the Americas. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum.
Commonly known as the Carolina sphinx moth and the tobacco hawk moth (as adults) and the tobacco hornworm and the Goliath worm (as larvae), it is closely related to and often confused with the very similar tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata); the larvae of both feed on the foliage of various plants of the family Solanaceae. The larvae of these species can be distinguished by their lateral markings: tomato hornworms have eight V-shaped white markings…

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

## Photo

![Tabakspijlstaart](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/carolina-sphinx/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jade Fortnash · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/209566454

## Machine access

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