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 Vladimir Izersky, (Coviriali, Junin, Peru, September), December 2008
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009
Updated as per Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) de Venezuela, Compilado por: María Esperanza Chacín; December 2009
Updated as per CATE Sphingidae (Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru; description); May 14, 2011
Updated as per personal communication with Hubert Mayer (La Union del Toachi, Pichincha, Ecuador, January 2, 2003); June 2, 2014
Updated as per personal communication with Vadim Kroutov (French Guiana); July 19, 2014

Callionima denticulata

Callionima denticulata male, Costa Rica, courtesy of Dan Janzen.

This site has been created by Bill Oehlke.
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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Callionima Lucas, 1857 ...........
Species: denticulata Schaus, 1895

DISTRIBUTION:

Callionima denticulata (Wing span: 59 - 72 mm), flies in
Mexico;
Nicaragua: Rio San Juan;
Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Alajuela, San Jose, Guanacaste, Cartago: El Copal (GK), Lemon, Heredia;
Panama: Veraguas;
western Venezuela: Tachira, Zulia;
Ecuador: Pichincha;
Peru: Junin (662m),
Bolivia: La Paz (750m), etc.

I suspect it also flies in Colombia.

Flight seems to be shortly after midnight.

Vadim Kroutov reports them in French Guiana, so I suspect they would also be in Guyana and Suriname.

Callionima denticualata male, 662m, Coviriali, Junin, Peru,
September 21, 2008, courtersy of Vladimir Izersky.

This species is very similar to Callionima pan pan, but the forewing apex is strongly truncate, and the outer margin is strongly hollowed out below the apex and markedly dentate. CATE

Callionima denticualata male, El Copal, Cartago, Costa Rica,
March 6, 2019, 1047m, courtesy of Gernot Kunz, id by Bill Oehlke.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Callionima denticulata adults fly continuously and specimens have been taken in every month in Costa Rica. Hubert Mayer reports a January flight in western Ecuador.

Callionima denticualata male, 662m, Coviriali, Junin, Peru,
September 21, 2008, courtersy of Vladimir Izersky.

ECLOSION:

Adults eclose from pupae formed in flimsy cocoons among leaf litter.

Callionima denticulata female courtesy of Dan Janzen.

Callionima denticulata female, La Union del Toachi, Pichincha, Ecuador,
January 2, 2003, courtesy of Hubert Mayer.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen. Both males and females nectar at flowers and come in to lights, but males are taken much more frequently that way.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae feed on Tabernaemontana alba and probably on other members of the Apocynaceae (Dogbane) family.

The anal horn is orange and thick. Larvae are green with reddish orange spiracles and a longitudinal, dotted black line down the back.

Larvae are parasitized by Thyreodon schauffi of the Ichneumonidae family and by Drino piceiventris of the Tachinidae family.

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