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Updated as per
AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, October 2007 Updated as per http://biological-diversity.info/sphingidae.htm (Belize), November 2007 Updated as per Fauna Entomologica De Nicarauga, November 2007 Updated as per The Known Sphingidae of Costa Rica, November 2007 Updated as per personal communication with Jose Monzon (Guatemala); May 2009 Updated as per Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) de Venezuela, Compilado por: María Esperanza Chacín; December 2009 Updated as per personal communication with Hubert Mayer (Rio Hollin, Napo, Ecuador; November); August 9, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Gernot Kunz (Costa Rica); March 20, 2017 |
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Sphingoidea, Dyar, 1902 |
Specimens have also been taken in
México;
Belize: Orange Walk, Cayo;
Guatemala: Izabal (JM);
Nicaragua: Madriz, Jinotega, Matagalpa,
Granada, Zalayas, Rio San Juan;
Venezuela: Amazonas, Aragua, Bolivar, Lara, Tachira, Zulia;
French Guiana **;
Ecuador: (Napo: Rio Hollin (HM));
Perú and
Bolivia: La Paz (750m).
Adhemarius ypsilon, Boca Tapada, Alejuela, Costa Rica,
June 5, 2008, 957m, courtesy of Gernot Kunz.
Adhemarius ypsilon, Corcovado, Puntarenas, Costa Rica,
June 24, 2008, 30m, courtesy of Gernot Kunz.
Adhemarius ypsilon, Costa Rica,
May 22, 2008, courtesy of Gernot Kunz.
I do not know where ypsilon and roessleri overlap or even if they do have a common area. Perhaps they have distinct ranges. Hence I do not know for sure whether the images sent by Hubert Mayer from Napo, Ecuador, are ypsilon or roessleri.
Adhemarius ypsilon males, Rio Hollin, Napo, Ecuador,
November 19, 24, 25, courtesy/copyright of Hubert Mayer.
Adhemarius ypsilon female, Peru, courtesy of Vladimir Izersky.
Adhemarius ypsilon yellow morph.
Development from pupation to adult emergence is less than three weeks (sixteen to eighteen days). The pupa is dark chestnut, smooth and shiny.I suspect the larvae will pupate in dark buckets under layers of paper towels as opposed to more natural (shallow) underground pupation. |
Ocotea atirrensis |
Ocotea atirrensis |
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