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Updated as per
AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009 Updated as per CATE (description; Bolivia: Mapiri; Ecuador: Zamora; Brazil: Santa Catarina; Venezuela; French Guiana); February 19, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Jose Ramon Alvarez Corral (Sierra de Lema, Bolivar, Venezuela, 63mm, September, 1995, 1090m); May 27, 2012 Updated as per personal communication with Frank Steiger (Junin and Pasco, Peru); June 17, 2013 Updated as per Hawk-moths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Trinidad, West Indies: an illustrated and annotated list; Matthew J.W. Cock; April 12, 2022 |
Nyceryx maxwelli, Venezuela, from
Hawkmoths of Venezuela,
courtesy of Dr. Maria Esperanza Chacin
and Jos� Clavijo A., Ph.D.
Nyceryx maxwelli Sierra de Lema, Bolivar, Venezuela,
63mm, September, 1995, 1090m, courtesy of Jose Ramon Alvarez Corral.
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Bill Oehlke.
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
I suspect it also flies in Peru: Junin and Pasco: Oxapampa (now confirmed by Frank Steiger).
Similar to Nyceryx continua cratera but apex of hindwing upperside brown and tornal area not yellow. Hindwing upperside with yellow basal area not extending beyond 1A and apex brownish-orange (not dark brown). CATE
The species name, maxwelli, is honourific for Maxwell.
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