Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009
Updated as per CATE (description; Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador); February 18, 2011

Perigonia grisea
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Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Perigonia grisea, Bolivia: La Paz, on my home computer only.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Perigonia Herrich-Schaffer, ]1854] ...........
Species: grisea Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

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DISTRIBUTION:

Perigonia grisea moths fly in
Bolivia: La Paz (300-1100m);
Peru: Huayabamba; Chanchamayo;
Ecuador.

Immediately distinguishable from all other Perigonia by the uniform grey forewing upperside crossed by narrow, dark brown transverse lines. Forewing upperside rather uniform grey, crossed by a nearly straight antemedian line, a sinuate postmedian line and a double submarginal line that runs almost perpendicularly from costa to tornus. Hindwing upperside most similar to Perigonia stulta but yellow tornal patch larger. CATE

FLIGHT TIMES:

Specimens have been taken in March-April.

ECLOSION:

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

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