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Updated as per personal communication with Eurides Furtado Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, December 2009 Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009 Updated as per CATE (Colombia, Ecuador, northern and eastern Brazil); February 6, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Leonardo Aguado (Misiones, Argentina, March 27, 2008): October 13, 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 |
Isognathus leachii
Pair: male: 85 mm; female 94: mm,
Reserva Vale da Solidão, 14o22’S 56o07’W, 450 m, Diamantino,
Mato Grosso, Brazil,
courtesy of Eurides Furtado.
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
DISTRIBUTION: Isognathus leachii (Wing span: males: 85mm; females: 94mm), flies in |
Isognathus leachii, Depto Cainguas, Aristobulo del Valle, A Cuna Piru, Misiones, Argentina,
March 27, 2008, courtesy of Leonardo Aguado.
"Forewing upperside with basal elongate patch about 2.5 mm broad; crossvein m2-m3 pale, distinctly separating a small dark brown patch in the discal cell from an elliptical spot distal to m2-m3; black streak between M3 and CuA1 heavy, more or less connected with the curved patch below CuA2; greyish-white scaling sparse, no distinct interrupted grey vein-streaks posteriorly.
"Inner edge of dark brown marginal band of hindwing upperside distinctly and almost regularly dentate, not constant in width." CATE
Isognathus leachii, Mogue, Darien, Panama, August 25, 2007,
courtesy
of Dr. Arthur Anker, STRI.
Isognathus leachii, Rancho Frio, Darien, Panama,
January 2016, courtesy of Ana Cecilia Zamora via Albert Thurman.
Larvae have long tails; colouration suggests they are unpalatable to birds.
Fourth and fifth instars, southern Venezuela, courtesy of Maurizio G. Paoletti,
confirmed by Jean Haxaire.
The pupae are also quite colourful, and, I suspect, are very lively. Moths generaly emerge witin 8-24 days of pupation.
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