Aellopos titan, Titan sphinx, White banded day sphinx

Aellopos titan
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(Cramer, 1777) Sphinx
The Titan Sphinx or White-banded Day Sphinx

Aellopos titan, 63mm, Isla Gorgona, Cauca, Colombia,
May 31, 2011, 0m, courtesy of Humberto Calero Mejia.

Aellopos titan verso, 63mm, Isla Gorgona, Cauca, Colombia,
May 31, 2011, 0m, courtesy of Humberto Calero Mejia.

Evaluación del estado actual de los objetos de conservación faunísticos en Isla Gorgona: una aproximación holística a la valoración ecológica de Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona.

Collected in Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona, Colombia Cauca. 0 msnm

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Aellopos Hubner, [1819] ...........
Species: titan Cramer, 1777

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