Updated as per "A Hawk Moths fauna of southern Maranhão state, Brazil, ... "; NEVA: Jahrgang 34 Heft 3 November 2013; via Jean Haxaire; April 5, 2014

Perigonia leucopus
Rothschild & Jordan, 1910

Perigonia leucopus, male, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, courtesy of Eurides Furtado

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Perigonia Herrich-Schaffer, ]1854] ...........
Species: leucopus Rothschild & Jordan, 1910

DISTRIBUTION:

Perigonia leucopus moths fly in
Brazil: Mato Grosso; southern Maranhao.

FLIGHT TIMES:

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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