Updated as per http://www.pybio.org/MACROGLOSSINAE.htm (Paraguay)
Updated as per L.O.L.A. publication Hawkmoths of Argentina, More, Kitching and Cocucci, 2005; November 2007.
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, October 2007
Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Bustos (Santiago del Estero; November); April 2009
Updated as per personal communication with Nigel Venters (56mm, Calilegua, Jujuy, Argentina; November 17, 2009, 750m); November 28, 2009
Updated as per "A Hawk Moths fauna of southern Maranhão state, Brazil, ... "; NEVA: Jahrgang 34 Heft 3 November 2013; via Jean Haxaire; April 5, 2014
Updated as per personal communication with Sergio D. Ríos Díaz in CATÁLOGO DE LOS SPHINGIDAE (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA) DEPOSITADOS EN EL MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL DEL PARAGUAY; sent to me in July 2014 by Sergio D. Ríos Díaz.

Callionima grisescens grisescens
(Rothschild, 1894) Hemeroplanes

Callionima grisescens, PYBIO

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Callionima Lucas, 1857 ...........
Species: grisescens grisescens Rothschild, 1894

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Callionima grisescens Villa La Punta, Santiago del Estero, Argentina,
November 2008, courtesy of Ezequiel Osvaldo Nunez Bustos.

DISTRIBUTION:

Callionima grisescens grisescens (Wing span: approximately 56mm (NV)), flies in
Argentina: Catamarca, Cordoba, Chaco, Jujuy, La Rioga, Misiones, Salta, San Luis, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman;
Paraguay: Paraguari; Alto Paraguay; Boqueron; Presidente Hayes; Concepcion; Central; Cordillera; Guaira; Alto Parana; and possibly Amambay, San Pedro, Canindeyu, Caaguazu, Itapua;
Bolivia: Santa Cruz, La Paz and probably Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Potosi, Tarija;
Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul; southern Maranhao; Rio de Janeiro and probably Parana and Sao Paulo. Subspecies C. g. elegans flies in northeastern Brazil.

Callionima grisescens grisescens courtesy of John Vriesi.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Callionima grisescens grisescens adults probably fly as multiple broods. They have been taken in Bolivia from May - December. Nigel Venters has taken them in Cordoba Province, Argentina in November-December, and in Jujuy Province in November. Ezequiel bustos confirms them from Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina, in November. They probably fly in other months as well. Carlos Marzano reports them in San Luis, Argentina, in February.

Callionima grisescens grisescens, Papagayos, San Luis, Argentina,
February 2009, courtesy of Carlos Marzano.

Callionima grisescens, 56mm, Calilegua, Jujuy, Argentina,
November 17, 2009, 750m, courtesy of Nigel Venters.

ECLOSION:

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

Callionima grisescens grisescens, Papagayos, San Luis, Argentina,
February 2009, courtesy of Carlos Marzano.

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.

Callionima grisescens grisescens, Papagayos, San Luis, Argentina,
February 2009, courtesy of Carlos Marzano.

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