Callionima denticulata 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: denticulata Schaus, 1895

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DISTRIBUTION:

Callionima denticulata (Wing span: 59 - 72 mm), flies in
Mexico;
Nicaragua: Rio San Juan;
Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Alajuela, San Jose, Guanacaste, Carthage, Lemon, Heredia;
western Venezuela,
Peru: Junin,
Bolivia, etc.

Callionima denticualata male, 662m, Coviriali, Junin, Peru,
September 21, 2008, courtersy of Vladimir Izersky.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Callionima denticulata adults fly continuously and specimens have been taken in every month in Costa Rica.

Callionima denticualata male, 662m, Coviriali, Junin, Peru,
September 21, 2008, courtersy of Vladimir Izersky.

ECLOSION:

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

Callionima denticulata female courtesy of Dan Janzen.

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 and come in to lights, but males are taken much more frequently that way.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae feed on Tabernaemontana alba and probably on other members of the Apocynaceae (Dogbane) family.

The anal horn is orange and thick. Larvae are green with reddish orange spiracles and a longitudinal, dotted black line down the back.

Larvae are parasitized by Thyreodon schauffi of the Ichneumonidae family and by Drino piceiventris of the Tachinidae family.

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