Abstract
Recently I searched the literature for data to be included in an article on the community of insects associated with a wild four-o'clock, Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.). One insect of this association is Celerio lineata Fabr., the lined Sphinx, a common North American moth. I had discovered this large caterpillar on the leaves of M. nyctaginea in Champaign County, Illinois. When consulting various sources for lists of the food plants of C. lineata , I discovered that its close relative, C. intermedia , has the synonym C. oxybaphi Clem. While synonyms are generally looked upon as objectionable because they tend to confuse nontaxonomic biologists and also clutter systematic studies, the name oxybaphi is useful because informative.
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