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Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Bustos (Aguas Blancas, Salta, Argentina, 405m); December 2009 Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, December 2009 Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009 Updated as per personal communication with Rodrigo Torres Nunez (108mm, Cundinamarca, Colombia, December 14, 2010); May 22, 2010 Updated as per personal communication with Humberto Calero Mejia (106mm, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, July 5, 2011); October 12, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Jose Ramon Alvarez Corral (Barinas; Merida, Venezuela) May 28, 2012; ongoing Updated as per personal communication with Sergio D. Rios Diaz in CAT�LOGO DE LOS SPHINGIDAE (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA) DEPOSITADOS EN EL MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL DEL PARAGUAY; sent to me in July 2014 by Sergio D. Rios Diaz. Updated as per personal communication with Joanna Rodriguez Ramirez (Buenos Aires, Argentina), January 21, 2015 Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Bustos (Shilap revta. lepid. 43 (172) diciembre, 2015, 615-631 eISSN 2340-4078 ISSN 0300-5267), January 4, 2016 Updated as per personal communication with Anna and Frank West (Rondonia, Brazil, September, 1991), January 19, 2021 |
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
Pachylia syces syces, Costa Rica, courtesy of Dan Janzen.
The location for the type specimen is unknown. The species seems rarely attracted to lights.
Pachylia syces, 122mm, Frenza Rancho Grande, Rondonia, Brasil,
Septemer, 1991, courtesy of Frank and Anna West.
Pachylia syces syces, Cundinamarca, Colombia,
1084mm, December 14, 2010, courtesy of Rodrigo Torres Nunez,
id by Bill Oehlke.
Pachylia syces syces (verso), Cundinamarca, Colombia,
108mm, December 14, 2010, courtesy of Rodrigo Torres Nunez,
id by Bill Oehlke.
Pachylia syces, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia,
106mm, July 5, 2011, 991m, courtesy of Humberto Calero Mejia.
Pachylia syces (verso), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia,
106mm, July 5, 2011, 991m, courtesy of Humberto Calero Mejia.
Jean Haxaire: "Moraceae. Moss (1920) has reared it on Artocarpus integrifolia and Cecropia sp. In Costa Rica, on species of Ficus spp."
In the early instars, larvae greatly resemble Pseudosphinx tetrio or a coral snake. They thrash about when disturbed and also "squeak".