Sphingidae of Ecuador

Although I believe these checklists contain only species within Ecuador, I fully expect there are omissions. If you have corrections to offer, please contact
Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.

The Cocytius species were recently reassigned to several different genera: Amphonyx, Pseudococytius, Morcocytius. I have listed them alphabetically as they would appear in older Cocytius assignment with new genera designations. Cocytius macasensis is now regarded as a junior synonym of Amphonyx lucifer.

Sphinx merops judsoni has been equated with nominate merops, and I have followed Tuttle's movement of South American and Central American Sphinx species back to Lintneria genus. Hence Lintneria arthuri and Lintneria merops.

The following image was sent to me by Claire Herzog for id purposes.

Unknown Sphingidae??, fifth instar, Sacha Lodge area, Orellana, Ecuador,, or
Yasuni National Park near the Napo Wildlife Center, courtesy of Claire Herzog.

I reply, "I have not seen a South American Sphingidae larva like that one before so it may be of another family and just resemble a Sphingid. With your permission I will send image to Ian Kitching and Jean Haxaire and see if they recognize it???

Claire granted permission and I forwarded the image to Ian and Jean.

Here is Jean Haxaire's reply, "OK, this larva is absolutely unknown to me. I have never seen anything even closed to that, except maybe Manduca manducoides. Could it be the larva of Euryglottis albostigma, or another Sphinginae? Well the position of the anal horn is very strange, but I think it is a Sphingidae anyway, and not a Notodontidae (they could have a horn, see Pheosia sp.)

"Well, waiting for Ian’s opinion.

"Jean

"A great larva anyway. What was the altitude?"

It was ascertained that the larval image was taken at lower elevations in Orellana, although Claire wrote back, "I looked back at my photos and these shots were taken at Yasuni National Park near the Napo Wildlife Center...same lowland elevation," seemingly ruling out a Euryglottis species.

Ian Kitching replied,

"Dear Jean and Bill,

"Thanks for the images, but like Jean, I have no idea what this might be, though I agree it is probably not notodontid (though nothing is impossible). I wondered about a Manduca but the lack of oblique stripes precludes most of them. The general shape is almost Acherontia but there is nothing in that group it could be. Orellana is all low elevation Amazonian forest as far as I can tell, nothing much over 400m, so Euryglottis would seem to be out of the question. The only total other total unknowns are Baniwa, Protaleuron and Phanoxyla, but this is not what I would expect them to look like. Sorry, I'm at a total loss here.

"Cheers,

"Ian"

This one will remain unknown, at least for the time being. Below is what appears to be an earlier instar.

Unknown Sphingidae, third instar??, Sacha Lodge area, Orellana, Ecuador, or
Yasuni National Park near the Napo Wildlife Center, courtesy of Claire Herzog.

Sphingini Agrius cingulata Amphimoea walkeri Cocytius antaeus Pseudo. beelzebuth Amphonyx duponchel Amphonyx lucifer Morco. mortuorum Eury. albostigmata Euryglottis aper Euryglottis davidianus Euryglottis dognini Euryglottis guttiventris Lintneria arthuri Lintneria merops HM Manduca albiplaga Manduca andicola Manduca clarki Manduca camposi Manduca contracta Manduca dalica dalica Manduca diffissa M. diff. petuniae IK Manduca extrema Manduca florestan Manduca hannibal Manduca lanuginosa Manduca lefeburei Manduca lucetius Manduca leucospila Manduca mossi IK Manduca neglecta Manduca ochus Manduca pellenia Manduca rustica MV Manduca schausi Manduca scutata Manduca sexta sexta Manduca trimacula Manduca vestalis Neococytius cluentius

Smerinthini Adhemarius daphne Adhemarius dentoni Ad. gan. gannascus Adhem. palmeri HM Adhemaris sexoculata Adhem. tigrina HM Adhemarius ypsilon Orecta venedictoffae Protambulyx euryalus Protambulyx eurycles Protambulyx goeldii Protambulyx s. strigilis

Dilophonotini Aellopos ceculus Aellopos clavipes Aellopos fadus A. tantalus tantalus Aellopos titan titan Aleuron carinata Aleuron chloroptera Aleuron cymographum Aleuron iphis Aleuron neglectum Callionima acuta Calli. calliomenae Callionima denticulata Callionima inuus Callionima nomius Callionima pan Callionima parce parce Enyo bathus Enyo cavifer Enyo gorgon Enyo lugubris lugubris Enyo ocypete Enyo taedium Erinnyis alope Erinnyis crameri Erinnyis ello ello Erinnyis lassauxi Erinnyis ob. obscura Erinnyis oenotrus Eupyrrho. corvus Eupyrrho. sagra Hemeroplanes diffusa H. longistriga Hemeroplanes ornatus H. triptolemus Isognathus leachi Isognathus swainsoni Madoryx b. bubastus Madoryx oiclus oiclus M. plutonius plutonius Nyceryx a. alophus Nyceryx coffeae Nyceryx ericea Nyceryx hyposticta Nyceryx lunaris Nyceryx magma Nyceryx maxwelli N. n. nictitans Nyceryx riscus Nyceryx stuarti Nyceryx tacita Oryba achemenides Oryba kadeni Pachy. caliginosa Pachygonidia drucei Pachygonidia hopfferi Pachygonidia martini Pachygonidia odile Pachygonidia ribbei Pachy. subhamata Pachylia darceta Pachylia ficus Pachylia syces syces Pachylioides resumens Perigonia grisea Perigonia ilus Perigonia interrupta Perigonia lusca Perigonia stulta Phryxus caicus Pseudosphinx tetrio Stolidoptera cadioui U. japix descrepans Unzela japix japix Unzela pronoë pronoë

Philampelini Eumorpha adamsi Eumorpha anchemolus Eumorpha capronnieri Eumorpha cissi Eumorpha drucei Eumorpha fasciata Eumorpha labruscae Eumorpha megaeacus Eumorpha obliquus Eumorpha phorbas Eumorpha satellitia Eumorpha s. licaon Eumorpha triangulum Eumorpha vitis

Macroglossini Hyles annei Hyles lineata Phanoxyla hystrix Xylophanes acrus Xylophanes agilis Xylophanes aglaor Xyl. alexandrei Xylophanes anubus X. aristor X. ceratomioides X. chiron chiron Xylophanes cosmius Xylophanes crotonis Xylophanes cyrene Xylophanes docilis Xylophanes dolius Xylophanes fusimacula Xylophanes germen Xylophanes guianensis Xyl. hannemanni Xyl. huloti Xylophanes kiefferi Xylophanes libya Xylophanes loelia Xy. macasensis X. mac. maculator X. maculator wolfi Xylophanes media Xylophanes mirabilis Xylophanes pistacina Xylophanes pluto X. por. continentalis Xylophanes pyrrhus Xylophanes rhodoclora Xylophanes rothschildi Xylophanes schwartzi Xylophanes tersa tersa Xylophanes thyelia Xylophanes titana Xylophanes tyndarus Xylophanes undata Xylophanes xylobotes Xyl. zurcheri (VK)

Eumorpha anchemolus, Napo Wildlife Center (00 31 29 S, 076,26 24 W), Ecuador,
July 4, 2010, 220 meters, photographed by Jean-Paul Lenglet, submitted by Gerard Boulay,
tentative id and slight digital repair by Bill Oehlke.

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Sphingini: Manduca
Sphingini: Agrius, Amphimoea, Cocytius, Euryglottis, Lintneria, Sphinx
Smerinthini: Adhemarius, Orecta and Protambulyx
Dilophonotini: Aleuron, Enyo, Pachygonidia, Stolidoptera and Unzela
Dilophonotini: Aellopos, Eupyrrhoglossum, Nyceryx and Perigonia
Dilophonotini: Callionima, Erinnyis, Hemeroplanes, Isognathus, Madoryx, Oryba, Pachylia, Pachylioides, Phryxus and Pseudosphinx
Philampelini: Eumorpha
Macroglossini: Hyles, Phanoxyla and Xylophanes