Sphingidae of French Guiana

Agrius cingulata, courtesy of Paolo Mazzei.

This checklist has recently (April 1, 2005) been updated to reflect the list provided from the work of Jean Haxaire as published in Lambillionea, 2/VI/2005.

I have used the nomenclature from Kitching and Cadiou 2000.

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Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.

On April 28, 2011, I compared the Haxaire listing with French Guiana Sytematics and have added the following species:

Manduca duquefi Haxaire & Vaglia, 2007 (reducta) from Massif du Mitaraka Sud; CATE lists this species from Guyane, Petit Barrage.

Hemaris fuciformis, ?, (Linnaeus, 1758) Remire, Pointe Mahury, à vue de jour, 2/V/2002, (M.Thouvenot), coll. F.Beneluz (Import ??)

I retain the following from Jean Haxaire's original list to me, but add the following notes.

Isognathus rimosa papayae is not included on the FG list; CATE lists it for Merida, Venezuela and indicates, "Unknown number and sex [French Guiana:] Cayenne (Année) [CMNH]; The type locality is doubtful. There is a syntype female in the CMNH that bears an additional label saying "Colomb." [Colombia], which may be the correct type location

Callionima falcifera is not included on the FG list: CATE as of 2009 continues to show French Guiana in red

Xylophanes ploetzi is not included on the FG list; CATE as of 2009 lists ploetzi for Venezuela: La Vuelta, Caura R.; and Guyana: Rio Demerera; and shows French Guina in red, supposedly indicating a known presence in that country.

I believe Manduca reducta was formerly thought to be in French Guiana, but duquefi has been found to be a distinct species, and replaces reducta outside of Ecuador and Peru.

* Eitschberger, 2002, split specimens previously listed as Adhemarius ypsilon into two species: true ypsilon and roessleri. One or the other, but not both, flies in French Guiana. Eitschberger indicates roessleri.

Sphingini

Agrius cingulata *
Amph. walkeri *
Amph. duponchel *
Amph. l. lucifer *
Cocytius antaeus *
C. beelzebuth *
Cocy. mortuorum *
Mand. albiplaga *
Mand. brunalba *
M. d. dalica *
M. dif. tropicalis *
Mand. duquefi *
M. florestan *
M. ha. hannibal *
M. huascara *
M. lefeburii *
M. leucospila *
M. lucetius *
M. prestoni *
M. reducta x
M. r. rustica *
M. s. paphus *
Manduca vestalis *
Neoco. cluentius *
Smerinthini

A. g. gannascus *
A. palmeri *
A. da. daphne *
A. gagarini *
A. roessleri *
A. ypsilon *
Protamb. eurycles *
Protamb. goeldii *
Protam. s. strigilis *
P. sulphurea *
Dilophonotini

Aellopos ceculus *
Aellopos fadus *
Aellopos t. titan *
Aleuron carinata *
Al. chloroptera *
Aleuron iphis *
Al. neglectum *
Call. denticulata
Call. falcifera
Callionima inuus *
Call. nomius *
Call. pan pan *
Call. p. parce *
Enyo cavifer *
Enyo gorgon *
Enyo l. lugubris *
Enyo ocypete *
Erinnyis alope *
Erinnyis crameri *
Er. domingonis *
Erinnyis ello ello *
Erinnyis lassauxi *
Erinn. o. obscura *
Erinnyis oenotrus *
Eupyr. sagra *
Hema. fuciformis imp.
Hemero. ornatus *
H. triptolemus *
Isog. c. caricae *
Isog. excelsior *
Isognathus leachi *
I. menechus *
I. occidentalis *
I. rimosa papayae
Isog. scyron *
Isog. swainsoni *
Mad. b. bubastus *
Madoryx o. oiclus *
M. p. plutonius *
Nyceryx coffeae *
Nyceryx ericea *
Nyceryx maxwelli *
Nyceryx riscus *
Nyceryx stuarti *
Nyceryx tacita *
Ory. achemenides *
Oryba kadeni *
P. caliginosa *
Pachylia darceta *
Pachylia ficus *
Pachy. syces syces *
Pachy. resumens *
Perigonia ilus *
Perigonia lusca *
Perigonia pallida *
Perigonia stulta *
Phryxus caicus *
Pseudosph. tetrio *
Unzela japix *
Unzela pronoe *
Philampelini

Eum. anchemolus *
Eum. capronnieri *
Eum. fasciatus *
Eum. labruscae *
Eum. megaeacus *
Eum. obliquus *
Eum. phorbas *
E. satellita licaon *
Eumorpha vitis *
Macroglossini

Hyles livornica *
X. a. amadis *
Xyl. anubus *
X. ceratomioides *
X. chiron nechus *
X. colinae *
Xylophanes elara *
X. epaphus *
X. fusimacula *
X. guianensis *
X. haxairei *
Xylophanes loelia *
Xyl. media *
Xyl. neoptolemus *
Xyl. pistacina *
Xylophanes ploetzi
Xylophanes pluto *
X. p. continentalis *
Xyl. rufescens *
Xyl. tersa tersa *
Xyl. thyelia *
Xylophanes titana *
Xyl. tyndarus*





































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Sphingini: Manduca
Sphingini: Agrius, Amphimoea, Cocytius, Amphonyx, Morcocytius, Pseudococytius
Smerinthini: Adhemarius and Protambulyx
Dilophonotini: Aleuron, Enyo, Pachygonidia and Unzela
Dilophonotini: Aellopos, Eupyrrhoglossum, Nyceryx and Perigonia
Dilophonotini: Callionima, Erinnyis, Hemeroplanes, Isognathus, Madoryx, Oryba, Pachylia, Pachylioides, Phryxus and Pseudosphinx
Philampelini: Eumorpha
Macroglossini: Hyles and Xylophanes

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