What's the difference between hawkmoth and sphingid?
Hawkmoth
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Sphingid
Definition:
(n.) A sphinx.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae.
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(1) Since the insulation of saturniids and sphingids is no more effective for animals of their size than is that of birds and mammals, their high body temperatures during activity appear to depend primarily on high levels of heat production.
(2) A 30-amino acid diuretic peptide was isolated from the corpora cardiaca-corpora allata complexes and, separately, from medial neurosecretory cells of the Sphingid moth, Manduca sexta.
(3) Cooling rate is less dependent on thoracic volume in saturniids than in sphingids.
(4) This observation suggests that hormonally released ManducaFLRFamide may play a role in sustaining or promoting the flight behavior necessary for mate-seeking (in males) or oviposition (in females) in sphingid moths.
(5) Choriogenesis in silkmoths (superfamily Bombycoidea) and in a sphingid moth (superfamily Sphingoidea) differ in major, but discrete, ways.
(6) These responses have been found only in 4 out of 19 sphingid species tested.
(7) Patterns of chorion protein synthesis in the sphingid differ from those in silkmoths in ways that are interpretable in light of the observed morphogenetic differences and the previously postulated functions of the proteins in silkmoths.
(8) However, when considered on the basis of thoracic weight, the weight-specific conductance of saturniids and sphingids closely approximates that predicted by the regression of weight-specific conductance on total body weight in birds and mammals.
(9) In the sphingid, lamellar framework formation occurs throughout choriogenesis rather than largely during the early stages as in silkmoths.
(10) The rates of post-flight cooling in 25 saturniid moths of 8 genera ranging in weight from 81 to 2650 mg were measured and compared with cooling rates in sphingids, birds and mammals.
(11) Muscle potentials were recorded extracellularly from developing pupae and adults of the saturniid moths Antheraea polyphemus and A. pernyi and the sphingid moth Manduca sexta.