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Updated as per Fauna Entomologica De Nicarauga, November 2007 Updated as per Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) de Venezuela, Compilado por: María Esperanza Chacín; December 2009 Updated as per CATE Sphingidae (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil); April 23, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Hubert Mayer (Caranavi, Nor Yungas, La Paz, Bolivia, September, 2008); June 2, 2014 Updated as per personal communication with Diogo Luiz (Tingua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23-24); April 24, 2017 |
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
Cocytius beelzebuth, male, 115mm, Costa Rica,
courtesy of Dan Janzen.
Cocytius beelzebuth, Tingua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
April 23, 2017, courtesy of Diogo Luiz.
Cocytius beelzebuth female, Caranavi, Nor Yungas, La Paz, Bolivia,
September, 2008, courtesy of Hubert Mayer.
Colourful larvae feed on Guatteria diospyroides and probably other members of the Annonaceae family. |
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