Callionima pan male courtesy of Dan Janzen.

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TAXONOMY: Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839 Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878 Genus: Callionima Lucas, 1857 ........... Species: pan Cramer, 1779

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DISTRIBUTION: Callionima pan (Wing span: approx. 64 mm- ??80mm) flies in Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Lemon; through Venezuela: Tachira, Bolivar (southwestern and southeastern) to southern Brazil. Brazil is the specimen type locality. Many of the Callionima species are quite similar. This specimen from Yasuni, Ecuador, was captured with camera on September 6, 2002 - 11:37 PM by Steve Graser. C. denticulata has a much more deeply scalloped area just below the forewing apex.

Jean Haxaire reports them from Bolivia: Santa Cruz.

Callionima pan, Isla Gorgona, Cauca, Colombia,
80mm, 0m, May 28, 2011, courtesy of Humberto Calero Mejia,
digital repair and tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

Callionima pan (verso), Isla Gorgona, Cauca, Colombia,
80mm, 0m, May 28, 2011, courtesy of Humberto Calero Mejia,
digital repair and tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Callionima pan probably has two to three broods annually, with adults taken in Costa Rica from April to June and from October to January.

ECLOSION:

Adults eclose from pupae formed in flimsy cocoons among leaf litter.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen. Both males and females nectar at flowers. Females are seldom taken at lights while males are more common.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE: