DISTRIBUTION:

Sphinx biolleyi (Wing span: ) flies in Costa Rica (possibly now extinct there) and Guatemala.

"The holotype specimen from Costa Rica is the only Costa Rican specimen known (extinct?), photograph courtesy of I. Kitching at The Natural History Museum (London), compare with Sphinx merops found throughout lowland Costa Rica, Sphinx biolleyi apparently occurs in Guatemala as a breeding population."

FLIGHT TIMES:

Sphinx biolleyi adults fly

ECLOSION:

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

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae feed on

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