DISTRIBUTION:

Callionima inuus (Wing span: 67 - 72 mm), flies in
Mexico;
Belize: Orange Walk, Cayo, Toledo;
Nicaragua: Jinotega, Matagalpa, Zelaya, Rio San Juan;
Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Puntarenas, Lemon, Heredia, Alajuela, San Jose, Carthage;
Panama; through
Venezuela to Paraguay: Paraguari; and Argentina. Peru is the specimen type locality.

Callionima inuus, Pook's Hill Reserve, Cayo District, Belize,
June 23, 2006, courtesy of Brant Reif.

A thin but distinct yellow streak runs from the tip of the pointed apex almost to the base of the large light-coloured patch along the costa.

FLIGHT TIMES:

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

ECLOSION:

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

Females are usually active from 11:00 pm until 3:00 am, while the males are on the wing from midnight until 2:30 am.

Callionima inuus male courtesy of Dan Janzen.

Callionima inuus 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: