Sphingidae of Peru

This is a very tentative checklist based primarily on a checklist I had compiled for Ecuador so I fully expect there are omissions and some erroneous inclusions. If you have corrections to offer, please contact
Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.

Many thanks to Vladimir Izersky (vi) who has begun (2008) to send many electronic images with data for Peru.

I have also added some species, based on listing on the CATE (C) website.

Hubert Mayer (hm), Bob Curry (bc) and Peter Bruce-Jones (pbj) have also sent many images from Peru. Bernhard Wenczel indicates Jose Boettger sent him a Protaleuron rhodogaster from Oxacampa, Pasco, Peru, eastern slopes, at elevation of 2512m.

Patrick Demez (pd) sends this beautiful image of Hyles annei.

Hyles annei, Puente Blanco, Ica, southwestern Peru, last week in August, 2009, courtesy of Patrick Demez.

The Cocytius species were recently reassigned to several different genera: Amphonyx, Pseudococytius, Morcocytius. I have listed them alphabetically as they would appear in older Cocytius assignment with new genera designations. Cocytius macasensis is now regarded as a junior synonym of Amphonyx lucifer.

Sphinx merops judsoni has been equated with nominate merops, and I have followed Tuttle's movement of South American and Central American Sphinx species back to Lintneria genus. Hence Lintneria arthuri and Lintneria merops.

Sphingini Agrius cingulatus Amphimoea walkeri Cocytius antaeus Pseudococytius beelzebuth Amphonyx duponchel Amphonyx lucifer Morcocytius mortuorum Euryglottis albostigmata Euryglottis aper HM* Euryglottis davidianus HM Euryglottis dognini HM* Euryglot. guttiventris HM Euryglottis oliver Lintneria arthuri Lintneria aurigutta HM Lintneria merops Lintneria porioni HM Manduca albiplaga Manduca andicola Manduca clarki Manduca composi Manduca dalica dalica Manduca diffissa Manduca extrema Manduca florestan Manduca hannibal Manduca lanuginosa Manduca lefeburei Manduca lucetius Manduca leucospila Manduca mossi Manduca neglecta Manduca ochus Manduca pellenia Manduca sexta sexta Manduca trimacula Manduca vestalis Neococytius cluentius *

Smerinthini Adhemarius dentoni A. gannascus pbj Adhemarius palmeri Adhemaris sexoculata * Adhemarius tigrina pbj Adhemarius ypsilon Orecta venedictoffae Protambulyx euryalus Protambulyx eurycles Protambulyx goeldii Protambulyx ockendeni Protambulyx s. strigilis

Dilophonotini Aellopos ceculus Aellopos clavipes Aellopos fadus A. tantalus tantalus Aellopos titan titan Aleuron carinata Aleuron chloroptera Aleuron cymographus Aleuron iphis Aleuron neglectum Callionima acuta Callionima calliomenae Callionima denticulata vi Callionima inuus vi Callionima juliane CATE Callionima nomius vi Callionima pan Callionima parce parce Enyo bathus jh Enyo cavifer vi Enyo gorgon vi Enyo lugubris vi Enyo ocypete vi Enyo taedium vi Erinnyis alope Erinnyis crameri Erinnyis ello ello Erinnyis lassauxi Erinnyis obscura obscura Erinnyis oenotrus Eupyrrhoglossum corvus Eupyrrhoglossum sagra Hemeroplanes diffusa H. longistriga Hemeroplanes ornatus H. triptolemus Iso. c. rainermarxi Isognathus leachi Isognathus swainsoni pbj Madoryx b. bubastus Madoryx oiclus oiclus M. plutonius plutonius vi Nyceryx alophus alophus Nyceryx coffeae Nyceryx c. continua Nyceryx continua cratera Nyceryx ericea Nyceryx hyposticta vi Nyceryx lunaris Nyceryx magma Nyceryx maxwelli N. n. nictitans Nyceryx riscus Nyceryx stuarti Nyceryx tacita Oryba achemenides Oryba kadeni vi Pachygonidia caliginosa Pachygonidia drucei Pachygonidia hopfferi Pachygonidia martini Pachygonidia ribbei Pachygonidia subhamata Pachylia darceta Pachylia ficus * Pachylia syces syces Pachylioides resumens Perigonia grisea Perigonia lusca Perigonia stulta Phryxus caicus vi Protaleu. rhodogaster bw Pseudosphinx tetrio U. j. descrepans ? Unzela j. japix vi Unzela pronoë pronoë

Philampelini Eumorpha adamsi Eumorpha anchemolus Eumorpha capronnieri Eumorpha cissi Eumorpha drucei Eumorpha eacus Eumorpha fasciata Eumorpha labruscae Eumorpha macasensis Eumorpha obliqua Eumorpha phorbas Eumorpha satellitia Eumorpha triangulum Eumorpha vitis

Macroglossini Hyles annei pd Hyles lineata pd Xylophanes acrus ? Xylophanes aglaor ? Xylophanes amadis Xylophanes anubus Xylophanes bilineata C Xylophanes blanca C X. ceratomioides X. chiron chiron Xylophanes cosmius Xylophanes crotonis Xylophanes cyrene Xylophanes docilis Xylophanes dolius Xylophanes fusimacula Xylophanes guianensis Xylophanes libya Xylophanes loelia Xylophanes macasensis X. maculator maculator X. maculator wolfi Xylophanes media Xylophanes mirabilis Xyl. nabuchodonosor pbj Xylophanes obscurus ? Xylophanes pistacina Xylophanes pluto Xylophanes pyrrhus pbj Xylophanes resta * Xylophanes rhodoclora bc Xylophanes rhodotus Xylophanes rothschildi Xylophanes rufescens vi Xylophanes schwartzi Xylophanes tersa tersa Xylophanes thyelia Xylophanes titana Xylophanes undata Xylophanes xylobotes

Nyceryx hyposticta, Coviriali, Junin, Peru,
November 21, 2008, 662m, courtesy of Vladimir Izersky.

Hyles lineata, Puente Blanco, Ica, southwestern Peru, September 30, 2009, courtesy of Patrick Demez.

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Sphingini: Manduca
Sphingini: Agrius, Amphimoea, Cocytius, Euryglottis, Lintneria, Sphinx
Smerinthini: Adhemarius, Orecta and Protambulyx
Dilophonotini: Aleuron, Enyo, Pachygonidia, Protaleuron and Unzela
Dilophonotini: Aellopos, Eupyrrhoglossum, Nyceryx and Perigonia
Dilophonotini: Callionima, Erinnyis, Hemeroplanes, Isognathus, Madoryx, Oryba, Pachylia, Pachylioides, Phryxus and Pseudosphinx
Philampelini: Eumorpha
Macroglossini: Hyles and Xylophanes

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