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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 Terry Stoddard (Peten, Guatemala, June, 92mm); August 15, 2015 |
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
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Terry Stoddard reports a June flight in Guatemala.
Manduca dilucida, Ixpanpajul, 5km S Santa Elena, Peten, Guatemala,
June 5, 2015, 200m, 92mm, courtesy of Terry Stoddard, id by Bill Oehlke.
Pale green, translucent eggs are deposited individually or in small groups of three to five on both upper and undersides of leaves.The first instar larvae are pale green with black horn. |
Larvae have several colour morphs, pass through five instars and feed on Annona reticulata, Annona holosericea and Sapranthus palanga of the Annonaceae family and on Amphilophilum paniculatum, Crescentia alata and Tabebuia ochracea of the Bignoniaceae family and on Cordia alliodora of the Boraginaceae family and on Cornutia grandifolia of the Verbenaceae family.
The larva lies on its back, in typical Manduca fashion, while pupating. The pupa has a flat, short tongue cover. Moths usually eclose after two months of development, but some pupae formed in June do not emerge until the following February. |
Larvae are highly subject to disease and to parasitization by Tricyphus respinozai and Tricyphus respinozai of the Ichneumonidae family and by Microplitis espinachi of the Braconidae family and by Belvosia sp. 6 and Drino rhoeo of the Tachinidae family and by Euplectrus walteri of the Eulophidae family.
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