Perigonia pallida pallida

Peroigonia pallida pallida

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Perigonia Herrich-Schaffer, ]1854] ...........
Species: pallida pallida Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

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DISTRIBUTION:

Perigonia pallida pallida moths fly in Venezuela and Paraguay and Brasil.

Perigonia pallida, Brasil, Poté, Minas Gerais, November 11, 2004,
courtesy of Frederik Goussey.

FLIGHT TIMES:

The Minas Gerais specimens were taken in November.

ECLOSION:

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

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