Carolina Sphinx (Manduca sexta) Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the American continent. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95051540 Related By Wade Hi. I’m Wade Murray, and like everyone with a personal website, mine is horribly, terribly out of date. On the Internet my handle is normally wademurray, but you can still find blime in some of the older dustier places. View all of Wade's posts.