Xylophanes nabuchodonosor
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, October 2007
Updated as per personal communication with Peter Bruce-James (Weyqecha Lodge, Manu, Cusco, Peru, 2950m); February 2010
Updated as per personal communication with Leonardo Aguado (Salta, Argentina, October, 1989); October 6, 2011
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

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor
Oberthür, 1904

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor by John Vriesi.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Macroglossini, Harris, 1839
Genus: Xylophanes Hubner [1819] ...........
Species: nabuchodonosor Oberthur, 1904

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DISTRIBUTION:

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor (wingspan: 76 - 82 mm) flies in
Bolivia: La Paz: Murillo, Zongo; Caupolican, Mamacona; Cochabamba: Carrasco, Chapare, Yunga del Espíritu Santo; Santa Cruz: Ichilo, Buena Vista, (Bolivia is given as the specimen type locality.);
Argentina: Salta (LA); Jujuy (EB) and in
Peru: Carabaya, Oconeque; Cusco.

caissa Gehlen, 1931, is same as Xylophanes nabuchodonosor.

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor, Weyqecha Lodge, Manu, Cusco, Peru,
2950m, courtesy of Peter Bruce-Jones, id by Bill Oehlke.

This species is very similar to Xylophanes rhodochlora, but first postmedian line is dentate on veins between costa and M3. The discal spot small is very small as in Xylophanes crotonis.

Specimens can be drab green or brown.

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor (verso), Weyqecha Lodge, Manu, Cusco, Peru,
2950m, courtesy of Peter Bruce-Jones, id by Bill Oehlke.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Leonardo Aguado reports an October flight in Salta, Argentina.

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor, Parque Nacional Baritu, Salta, Argentina,
October 1989, courtesy of Leonardo Aguado, id and digital repair by Bill Oehlke.

ECLOSION:

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

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:

The snake-like larva has a head and the three thoracic segments which may be retracted into abdominal segment 1, which is swollen and adorned with a pair of light-ringed grey eye-spots.

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