Trogolegnum pseudambulyx composited from Vernon Brou image.

Trogolegnum pseudambulyx Tlalpujahua, Michoacan, Mexico,
courtesy of Juan Carlos Garcia Morales.

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TAXONOMY: Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 Subfamily: Smerinthinae, Grote & Robinson, 1865 Tribe: Smerinthini, Grote & Robinson, 1865 Genus: Trogolegnum Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 ........... Species: pseudambulyx (Boisduval, [1875])

DISTRIBUTION:

Trogolegnum pseudambulyx flies in Mexico (specimen type locality). It has been taken in the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, Durango, Michoacan, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and ??Guerrero Mill??

The forewing am band is complete from the inner margin to the upper edge of the costa. The hindwing black accentuation of wing veins is linear and complete.

Trogolegnum pseudambulyx courtesy of Manuel Balcazar-Lara.

FLIGHT TIMES:

ECLOSION:

Pupae probably wiggle to surface from subterranean chambers just prior to eclosion.

Trogolegnum pseudambulyx, Hidalgo, Mexico,
courtesy of Vadim Kroutov.

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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