Updated as per personal communication with Lucius Rabello Vasconcellos (Three Rivers, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 13, 2019); April 15, 2019
Updated as per personal communication with Paulo Renato Huppes (Caraa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, June 2, 2019); June 3, 2019

Enyo gorgon
EN-yohMGOR-gon
(Cramer, 1777) Sphinx

Enyo gorgon male, Three Rivers, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
April 13, 2019, courtesy of Lucius Rabello Vasconcellos.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Enyo Hubner, [1819] ...........
Species: gorgon gorgon (Cramer, 1777)

Enyo gorgon female, Caraa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
June 2, 2019, courtesy of Paulo Renato Huppes, id by Bill Oehlke.

Enyo gorgon male, Estrada dos Bandierantes, SE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
April 28, 2020, courtesy of Leonardo Ocs, id by Bill Oehlke.

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