Manduca bergamatipes
Updated as per the L.O.L.A. publication Hawkmoths of Argentina, More, Kitching and Cocucci, 2005, October 2007.
Updated as per personal communication with Nigel Venters (wingspan: 88mm, Tafe de Valle, Tucuman, Argentina, November 26, 2008, 2000m),
February 12, 2009

Manduca bergamatipes
(B. P. Clark, 1927) Protoparce

Manduca bergamatipes, Tafe de Valle, Tucuman, Argentina,
wingspan: 88mm, November 26, 2008, 2000m, courtesy of Nigel Venters.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Sphinginae, Latreille, [1802]
Tribe: Sphingini, Latreille, 1802
Genus: Manduca Hubner, [1807] ...........
Species: bergamatipes (B. P. Clark, 1927)

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DISTRIBUTION:

Manduca bergamatipes (wingspan: males: approximately 88mm; females: 117mm) flies in Argentina: Tucuman.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Manduca bergamatipes adults fly in November (probably into December) and possibly in other months.

ECLOSION:

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

Manduca bergamatipes female, Tafe de Valle, Tucuman, Argentina,
wingspan: 117mm, December, 2008, 2000m, courtesy of Nigel Venters.

Manduca bergamatipes female (verso), Tafe de Valle, Tucuman, Argentina,
wingspan: 117mm, December, 2008, 2000m, courtesy of Nigel Venters.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen. Adults take nectar from flowers.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larval hosts are unknown. This is apparently quite a rare species.

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