Sphingidae of Venezuela

This checklist has been updated (April 1, 2005) to reflect the list provided from the work of María Esperanza Chacín as was recently sent to me at Hawkmoths of Venezuela (no longer available online). Additions to my original list and individual files are followed by MEC for María Esperanza Chacín.

I have used the nomenclature from Kitching and Cadiou 2000.

If you have corrections to offer, please contact
Bill Oehlke .

This page has been further updated (May 17, 2011) with links to thumbnail checklists. I am very interested in receiving digital images and data of Sphingidae and Saturniidae (adults, eggs, larvae, pupae, cocoons) with data (location, wingspan, foodplant, elevation, date).

All images that I use are credited to respective photographers and those images remain the property of the photographers. Data submissions are also acknowledged.

Paolo Mazzei has provided many beautiful images of hawkmoths from Venezuela.

Agrius cingulata from Rancho Grande, H. Pittier National Park, Venezuela,
courtesy of Paolo Mazzei.

I hope that over the next twenty years the site can be further refined to allow for the creation of state by state checklists for Venezuela.

Many thanks to those who have already submitted photos and information. The CATE Sphingidae site has been extremely helpful regarding descriptions and determinations. If there are mistakes on this site, they are my own. Bill Oehlke.

Many thanks to Jose Ramon Alvarez Corral who provides the following notes:
Euryglottis johannes, Merida: western Cordillera de Merida, 700m, February; Barinas: La Soledad, 1300m, February and May;
Morcocytius mortuorum, Amazonas;
Manduca huascara, Barinas; September;
Manduca lucetius, Bolivar;
Manduca schausi, Barinas;
Protambulyx eurycles, Barinas, Merida, Aragua, Amazonas, Bolivar;
Isognathus scyron, Bolivar;
Isognathus swainsoni, Bolivar;
Kloneus babayaga, Merida;
Nyceryx coffeae, Barinas, Merida;
Nyceryx magna, Barinas, Merida;
Nyceryx riscus, Barinas;
Nyceryx continua cratera, Bolivar;
Nyceryx stuarti, Barinas, Merida;
Nyceryx tacita, Barinas, Merida;
Pachylia syces, Barinas, Merida;
Eumorpha obliquus, Barinas;
Eumorpha phorbas, Bolivar, Amazon;
Xylophanes hannemanni, Barinas;
Xylophanes libya, Barinas;

Many thanks to Marcial Garcia (MG) of Caripe, Monagas, Venezuela, who has begun to provide digital images from Caripe.

Sphingini Agrius cingulatus Amphimoea walkeri Cocytius antaeus C. beelzebuth MEC Cocytius duponchel Cocytius lucifer Euryglottis aper Euryglottis dognini Euryglottis johannes Manduca albiplaga M. corallina MEC M. d. dalica M. d. tropicalis Manduca dilucida Manduca empusa *1 Man. extrema MEC M. florestan Man. fosteri MEC M. franciscae MEC M. h. hannibal MEC M. huascara JRA M. lanuginosa MEC M. l. lefeburi MEC M. leucospila MEC Manduca lichenea Man. lucetius JRA Manduca ochus Manduca perplexa *2 M. r. rustica Man. schausi JRA Manduca scutata M. s. paphus M. trimacula MEC Manduca vestalis Mor. mortuorum JRA Neococytius cluentius Sph. m. merops MEC *1 Manduca empusa type location may be in error *2 Manduca perplexa is now regarded as a synonym of Manduca lucetius Smerinthini Adhemarius daphne Ad. g. gannascus A. palmeri MEC Adh. sexoculatus A. tigrina tigrina A. ypsilon MEC Protambulyx euryalus Protam. eurycles JRA Protambulyx goeldii MG Protam. s. strigilis P. sulphurea MEC Dilophonotini Aellopos clavipes Aellopos fadus MEC Aellopos titan titan Al. carinata MEC Al. chloroptera MEC Aleuron iphis MEC Al. neglectum MEC Baniwa yavitensis ?? Call. calliomenae Call. denticulata MEC Call. falcifera MEC Callionima inuus Callionima nomius Callionima pan pan Callionima parce Enyo gorgon MEC Enyo lugubris Enyo ocypete Enyo taedium Erinnyis alope Erinnyis crameri Erinnyis domingonis Erinnyis ello ello Erinnyis impunctata Erinnyis lassauxi Erinnyis obscura Erinnyis oenotrus Eupy. corvus MEC Eupyrrhog. sagra Eupyrrhog. venustum Hemeroplanes ornatus H. triptolemus MEC Isog. allamandae Isognathus c. caricae Isognathus excelsior Isognathus leachi I. menechus MEC I. mossi fabiane ? I. rimosa papayae Isogna. scyron JRA Isog. swainsoni JRA Isognathus tepuyensis Klo. babayaga MEC Madoryx b. bubastus Madoryx oiclus oiclus M. plutonius plutonius Nyceryx coffeae JRA N. cont. cratera JRA Nyceryx ericea Nyceryx hyposticta Nyceryx magna JRA N. maxwelli MEC Nyceryx riscus JRA Nyceryx stuarti JRA Nyceryx tacita JRA O. achemenides MEC Oryba kadeni MEC P. caliginosa MEC Pa. subhamata Pach. darceta MEC Pachylia ficus Pachylia syces JRA Pachylioides resumens Perigonia ilus Perigonia lusca Perigonia pallida Perigonia pittieri Perigonia stulta Phryxus caicus MEC Pseudosphinx tetrio Stolidoptera tachasara Unzela japix MEC Unzela pronoe MEC Philampelini Eumorpha adamsi Eum. anchemolus Eum. capronnieri Eumorpha cissi Eumorpha fasciata Eumorpha labruscae Eum. obliquus JRA Eum. phorbas JRA E. satellita licaon Eumorpha triangulum Eumorpha vitis Macroglossini Hyles lineata X. alvarezsierrai X. a. amadis X. amadis meridanus Xylophanes anubus Xylophanes aristor X. ceratomioides X. chiron nechus Xylophanes clarki ?? Xyl. crotonis JRA Xylophanes elara X. fernandezi MEC X. fusimacula X. germen yurakano X. guianensis X. hannemani JRA X. haxairei MEC Xyl. libya MEC Xylophanes loelia X. macu. maculator Xyl. media MEC X. neoptolemus Xylophanes pistacina Xyl. ploetzi CATE Xylophanes pluto X. p. continentalis X. p. porcus MEC Xylophanes pyrrhus Xylophanes resta Xyl. rhodochlora JRA Xylophanes rufescens Xylophanes sarae Xylophanes schausi Xylophanes tersa tersa X. tersa chaconi MEC Xylophanes thyelia Xylophanes titana Xylophanes turbata Xylophanes tyndarus Xyl. virescens>i>

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