Xylophanes ceratomioides, Septimo Paraiso Lodge, Mindo,
Pichincha Province, Ecuador,
March 4, 2005; 4,200' elevation, courtesy of Robert Behrstock.
Although I believe these
checklists contain only species within Ecuador,
I fully expect there are omissions. If you have corrections
to offer, please contact
The Cocytius species were recently reassigned to several different genera: Amphonyx, Pseudococytius, Morcocytius. I have listed them alphabetically as they would appear in older Cocytius assignment
with new genera designations. Cocytius macasensis is now regarded as a junior synonym of Amphonyx lucifer.
Bill Oehlke at
oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.
Sphinx merops judsoni has been equated with nominate merops, and I have followed Tuttle's movement of South American and Central American Sphinx species back to Lintneria genus. Hence Lintneria arthuri and Lintneria merops.
The following image was sent to me by Claire Herzog for id purposes.
Unknown Sphingidae??, fifth instar, Sacha Lodge area, Orellana, Ecuador,, or
Yasuni National Park near the Napo Wildlife Center, courtesy of Claire Herzog.
Claire granted permission and I forwarded the image to Ian and Jean.
Here is Jean Haxaire's reply, "OK, this larva is absolutely unknown to me. I have never seen anything even closed to that, except maybe Manduca manducoides.
Could it be the larva of Euryglottis albostigma, or another Sphinginae? Well the position of the anal horn is very strange, but I think it is a Sphingidae
anyway, and not a Notodontidae (they could have a horn, see Pheosia sp.)
"Well, waiting for Ian’s opinion.
"Jean
"A great larva anyway. What was the altitude?"
Ian Kitching replied,
"Dear Jean and Bill,
"Thanks for the images, but like Jean, I have no idea what this might be, though I agree it is probably not notodontid (though nothing is impossible).
I wondered about a Manduca but the lack of oblique stripes precludes most of them. The general shape is almost Acherontia but there is nothing in that
group it could be. Orellana is all low elevation Amazonian forest as far as I can tell, nothing much over 400m, so Euryglottis would seem to be out of the
question. The only total other total unknowns are Baniwa, Protaleuron and Phanoxyla, but this is not what I would expect them to look like.
Sorry, I'm at a total loss here.
"Cheers,
"Ian"
Unknown Sphingidae, third instar??, Sacha Lodge area, Orellana, Ecuador, or
Yasuni National Park near the Napo Wildlife Center, courtesy of Claire Herzog.
Eumorpha anchemolus, Napo Wildlife Center (00 31 29 S, 076,26 24 W), Ecuador,
July 4, 2010, 220 meters, photographed by Jean-Paul Lenglet, submitted by Gerard Boulay,
tentative id and slight digital repair by Bill Oehlke.
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Sphingini: Manduca
Sphingini: Agrius, Amphimoea, Cocytius, Euryglottis, Lintneria, Sphinx
Smerinthini: Adhemarius, Orecta and Protambulyx
Dilophonotini: Aleuron, Enyo, Pachygonidia, Stolidoptera and Unzela
Dilophonotini: Aellopos, Eupyrrhoglossum, Nyceryx and Perigonia
Dilophonotini: Callionima, Erinnyis, Hemeroplanes, Isognathus, Madoryx, Oryba, Pachylia, Pachylioides, Phryxus
and Pseudosphinx
Philampelini: Eumorpha
Macroglossini: Hyles, Phanoxyla and Xylophanes