High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xanthopan morgani, or Morgan's Sphinx, is a very large hawk moth from West Africa (Rhodesia, Nyasaland) and Madagascar. It is the sole member of its genus, and little is known of the biology, though the adults have been found to visit orchids (see below), and it is believed that the larvae feed on Uvaria. In January 1862 while researching insect pollination of orchids, Charles Darwin received a package of orchids from the distinguished horticulturist James Bateman, and in a follow up letter with a second package Bateman's son Robert confirmed the names of the specimens, including Angraecum sesquipedale from Madagascar.

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