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Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, October, 2007 Updated as per All Leps Barcode of Life, October 2007 Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, October 2007 Updated as per Fauna Entomologica De Nicarauga, November 2007 Updated as per The Known Sphingidae of Costa Rica, November 2007 Updated as per Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) de Venezuela, Compilado por: Maria Esperanza Chacon; December 2009 Updated as per personal communication with Jonathan Agius (image) and Dave Rolfe (suggestion) (form flavellus, (Gehlen, 1926), as per Hawkmoths of the World, Kitching and Cadiou) September 30, 2010 Updated as per French Guiana Sphingidae; March 9, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Hubert Mayer (Rio Hollin, Napo, Ecuador, December; Espirito Santo, Brazil); August 9, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Bustos (Shilap revta. lepid. 43 (172) diciembre, 2015, 615-631 eISSN 2340-4078 ISSN 0300-5267), January 4, 2016 Updated as per personal communication with Joao Amarildo Ranguetti (Massaranduba, Santa Catarina, Brazil, January 12, 2015); December 4, 2016 Updated as per personal communication with Janeth Coutinho (Guabiruba, Santa Catarina, Brazil, December 14, 2016); December 16, 2016 Updated as per personal communication with Regina Lepage (Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 4, 2017); April 6, 2017 Updated as per Hawk-moths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Trinidad, West Indies: an illustrated and annotated list; Matthew J.W. Cock; March 31, 2022 |
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Sphingoidea, Dyar, 1902 |
Adhemarius palmeri, Argentina, courtesy of Fernando Penco,
from the collection of Leo Aguado.
It has also been reported in Central America:
southern Nicaragua: Rio San Juan;
Costa Rica: Lemon, Heredia; and
probably also
flies in Panama.
In Bolivia there is a record for December. Hubert Mayer reports a December flight in Ecuador. In Minas Gerais, Brasil, there is a record for November. Joao Amarildo Ranguetti reports a January flight in Masaranduba, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Janeth Coutinho reports a December flight in Guabiruba, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Regina lepage confrims and early April flight in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Adhemarius palmeri male, Rio Hollin, Napo, Ecuador,
December 17, 1998, courtesy/copyright of Hubert Mayer.
Adhemarius palmeri female, Espirito Santo, Santa Leopoldino, Alto Tirol, Brazil,
February 10, 1998, courtesy/copyright of Hubert Mayer.
Adhemarius palmeri, Massaranduba, Santa Catarina, Brazil,
January 12, 2015, courtesy of Joao Amarildo Ranguetti.
Adhemarius palmeri, Guabiruba, Santa Catarina, Brazil,
December 14, 2016, courtesy of Janeth Coutinho.
Adhemarius palmeri, Sertao do Uno San Sebastio, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
April 4, 2017, courtesy of Regina Lepage.
Adhemarius palmeri male underside, Costa Rica, courtesy of Dan Janzen.
Adhemarius palmeri, Brasil, Pot�, Minas Gerais, November 11,
2004,
courtesy of Frederik Goussey.
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