DISTRIBUTION:

Xylophanes gundlachii moths fly in Cuba (specimen type locality).

"Most similar to Xylophanes irrorata but upperside of body and forewings deep green rather than pinkish-brown, and hindwings uniform dark brown. Forewing upperside with a dark green postmedian line, with a pale proximal border, that ends on the inner margin in a brown spot; discal spot small, black, with a white centre; costal edge and fringe reddish, the fringe more brown posteriorly and with very few white scales. Basal three-fifths brown, as hindwing upperside. Brown; fringe pale, not distinctly spotted." CATE

FLIGHT TIMES:

Xylophanes gundlachii adults fly????

ECLOSION:

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

Xylophanes gundlachi female, Cuba, courtesy of Tomas Melichar.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen. Males come in to lights very readily, but females are seldom taken in that way.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae probably feed on plants in the Rubiaceae family and Malvaceae families.

Moths emerge approximately one-two months after larvae pupate.

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