Pachylioides resumens
Updated as per http://www.pybio.org/SPHINGINAE.htm (Paraguay), November 2007
Updated as per http://www.pybio.org/MACROGLOSSINAE.htm (Paraguay)
Updated as per personal communication with Johan van't Bosch (Mato Grosso, Brazil, September 23), March 2008
Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, March 2008

Pachylioides resumens
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(Walker, 1856) Pachylia

Pachylioides resumens, Paraguay, PYBIO.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Pachylioides Hodges, 1971 ...........
Species: ficus Walker, 1856

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DISTRIBUTION:

Pachylioides resumens (Wing span: 3 1/2 - 4 inches (6.3 - 10.2 cm)) flies in
Argentina: Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Tucuman;
Brazil: Mato Grosso (JvB);
Paraguay: Alto Paraguay, Boqueron, Presidente Hayes, Concepcion, Amambay, San Pedro, Canindeyu, Caaguazu, Cordillera, Paraguari, Guaira, Caazapa, and (probably Central and Itapua);
north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies. Strays occasionally find their way into southern Texas and southeastern Wyoming.

The forewing tip is hooked. The upperside of the forewing is gray-brown with dark brown incomplete wavy lines and dark brown and orange shading.

The upperside of the hindwing has orange shading and dark brown patches at the tip and in the center.

Pachylioides resumens, Yasuni, Ecuador, (September 7, 2002 - 1:45 AM), courtesy of Steve Graser.

FLIGHT TIMES:

There are several flights throughout the year in the tropics.

In northeastern Argentina (Misiones Province) there is at least one flight in December (Oz Rittner).

Pachylioides resumens male, courtesy of Hubert Mayer copyright.

ECLOSION:

Moths emerge from pupae in thin-walled cocoons under leaf litter.

Pachylioides resumens male courtesy of Dan Janzen.

Pachylioides resumens 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.

Pachylioides resumens female, courtesy of Hubert Mayer copyright.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Females lay eggs on Echites species in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae). Echites umbellata, Ficus and Ficus carica are listed as larval hosts.

Larvae pupate in cocoons spun amongst leaf litter.

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