How can a Achemon Sphinx Moth fly with those wings?

[RKW]

It fly's just fine, thank you very much. The wings are conventionally shaped. It's an illusion. Like a door painted on a wall, the leafy texture is not really there. Found in the flower garden.

 

[Marino13]

It fly's just fine, thank you very much. The wings are conventionally shaped. It's an illusion. Like a door painted on a wall, the leafy texture is not really there. Found in the flower garden.

I found one of these on my porch just a couple days ago. Neat animal mumine was greenish.

 

[Gare]

Nice picture GREAT question on how can it fly

 

[Red-Coat]

Great picture.

There’s a slo-mo video of another Eumorpha sphinx moth at the link below. Not the achemon species, but it has the same narrow, coupled fore- and hind-wing anatomy:



Moth wings vibrate over a wide range speeds; anything from a few cycles per second all the way up to small, fast-flying and highly manoeuvrable species such as the hummingbird hawk-moth at 85 cycles per second.

For sphinx moths it’s pretty high, at around 40 cycles per second, so they’re strong and fast fliers that can also hover in mid air. Like many moths, they also "shiver" before flight, rapidly twitching their wings to generate heat and warm up their flight muscles for optimum performance.

 

[Gare]

GREAT video R C !!