DISTRIBUTION:

Xylophanes nabuchodonosor (wingspan: 76 - 82 mm) flies in
Bolivia: La Paz: Murillo, Zongo; Caupolican, Mamacona; Cochabamba: Carrasco, Chapare, Yunga del Espíritu Santo; Santa Cruz: Ichilo, Buena Vista, (Bolivia is given as the specimen type locality.) and in
Peru: Carabaya, Oconeque.

caissa Gehlen, 1931, is same as Xylophanes nabuchodonosor.

This species is very similar to Xylophanes rhodochlora, but first postmedian line is dentate on veins between costa and M3. The discal spot small is very small as in Xylophanes crotonis.

Specimens can be drab green or brown.

FLIGHT TIMES:

ECLOSION:

Pupae probably wiggle to surface from subterranean chambers or leaf litter 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. Males come in to lights very readily, but females are seldom taken in that way.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

The snake-like larva has a head and the three thoracic segments which may be retracted into abdominal segment 1, which is swollen and adorned with a pair of light-ringed grey eye-spots.

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