Xylophanes tersa, Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
courtesy of Larry Valentine.
Although I believe these
"tribal" checklists contain only species within Brazil,
I fully expect there are omissions. If you have corrections
to offer, please contact
I am most thankful to Jean Haxaire for sending me an electronic copy of Faune de Bolivie, Lépidoptères Sphingidae,
Ecologie et systématique.
Bill Oehlke at
oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.
I used his checklist and compared it to publications for Venezuela to come up with this list.
Those species listed are found in both Venezuela and Bolivia or have Brazil as the specimen type locality or are generally well known to fly in Brazil.
Species with a black * after them are confirmed by Catarina da Silva Motta from extensive collecting in northern Brazil. I am very thankful to her for extensive research and reports she has sent to me.
A red * indicates a new species or a species confirmed by specimen type locality, but not listed on Catarina's checklists for northern Brazil. Many of these species may be from southern Brazil.
A green ? indicates no confirmed records. The species may or may not fly in Brazil.
Eurides Furtado offers corrections to my previous
listings: Manduca violaalba
flies in Brazil and is quite distinct from
Manduca incisa. Perigonia ilus also flies in Brazil and
is not a subspecies of Perigonia lusca. Manduca manducoides
has also been added to the list.
Eurides has provided the following information with beautiful
images:
Perigonia leucopus Rothschild & Jordan, 1910. Male. Flies in Mato
Grosso State, Brazil.
Nyceryx furtadoi Haxaire, 1996. Pair. Flies in Brazil in
States Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Perigonia ilus Boisduval, 1870. Pair. Is a good species, not
form of P. lusca (Fabricius, 1777), see Kutching & Cadiou,
2000 (Hawkmoths of the world). Flies in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Manduca manducoides (Rothschild, 1894). Pair. Flies in Brazil
in States Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo.
Manduca violaalba (B. P. Clark, 1922). Male. Flies in Brazil
in States Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Manduca corumbensis (B. P. Clark, 1920). Male. Flies in Brazil
in States Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Isognathus menechus (Boisduval, [1875]). Pair. Flies in Mato
Grosso, Brazil.
Eumorpha adamsi (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903). Pair. Flies in
Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Isognathus allamandae Clark, 1920
Pair: male 68 mm; female 78 mm. June. Reserva Vale da Solidão, 14o22’S 56o07’W, 450 m, Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Isognathus swainsonii Felder & Felder, 1862
Male 82 mm. December. Reserva Vale da Solidão, 14o22’S 56o07’W, 450 m, Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Isognathus australis Clark, 1917
Male 70 mm. January. Santa Leopoldina, Tirol, 600-800 m, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Isognathus leachii (Swainson, 1823)
Pair: male 85 mm; female 94 mm. Reserva Vale da Solidão, 14o22’S 56o07’W, 450 m, Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Nyceryx alophus alophus (Boisduval, [1875])
Male 54 mm. October. Rio Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Pachygonidia caliginosa (Boisduval, 1870)
Female 70 mm. March. Reserva Vale da Solidão, 14o22’S 56o07’W, 450 m, Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Eumorpha satellitia excessus (Gehlen, 1926)
Pair: male 105 mm; female 117 mm. September-October. Reserva Vale da Solidão, 14o22’S 56o07’W, 450 m, Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Agrius cingulata, Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
November 8, 2009, courtesy of Larry Valentine.
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Manduca fosteri (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906)
Euryglottis albostigmata basalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906)
Euryglottis davidianus Dognin, 1891
Neogene carrerasi (Giacomelli, 1911)
Callionima falcifera falcifera (Gehlen, 1943)
Nyceryx lunaris Jordan, 1912
Xylophanes aristor (Boisduval 1870)
Xylophanes fosteri Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
In August, 2003, Catarina S. Motta was very kind to send me reprints of several articles she authored or co-authored regarding distributions of Sphingidae in Brazil. Summaries are listed below and I have used her data to update the checklist above.
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Courtesy of Johan van't Bosch, Scott Olmstead and Erin Brandt I have received images of the following Sphingidae from Cristalino Jungle Lodge in northcentral Mato Grosso near the border with Para: