DISTRIBUTION:

Manduca incisa flies in
Brazil (specimen type locality): Mato Grosso; Sao Paulo;
Bolivia: Ipati (1000m), Department of Santa Cruz; and in
Paraguay: Concepcion; San Pedro; Amambay; Canindeyu.

Vadim Kroutov adds a range into Misiones,
Argentina: Misiones, with the following image.

Manduca incisa male, 85mm, Misiones, Argentina,
courtesy of Vadim Kroutov.

May be distinguished from Manduca lefeburii by the possession of narrow black mesial line on the abdomen upperside; by the forewing upperside being paler proximal to the transverse band than distal to it; by the somewhat more conspicuous distal costal mark; and by the more extended apical line. CATE

FLIGHT TIMES:

Manduca incisa adults fly

ECLOSION:

Pupae probably wiggle to surface from subterranean chambers just prior to eclosion.

Manduca incisa, courtesy of All Leps Barcode of Life.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen. Adults take nectar from flowers.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

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