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Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, December 2009 Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009 Updated as per personal communication with Gregory Nielsen (Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia, January 15, 2011, 500m); February 7, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Ben Trott (Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico); April 21, 2012 |
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
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India (in error) is given as the specimen type locality. West Indies was probably intended.
Erinnyis ello female, Ottley Plantation, St. Kitts, courtesy of Tony and Pat James.
The abdomen has very distinct gray and black bands. The female's forewing upperside is pale gray with a few dark dots near the outer margin. The male's forewing upperside is dark gray and brown with a black band running from the base to the tip. In both sexes, the hindwing upperside is orange with a wide black border.
Visit Stepanie Sanchez's Erinnyis ello images from southern Florida.
Visit Shelby and Kevin Heeter`s Erinnyis ello images from Islamorada, Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida.
Visit Erinnyis ello, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia, courtesy of Gregory Nielsen.
Erinnyis ello male, Ottley Plantation, St. Kitts, courtesy of Tony and Pat James.
Erinnyis ello, north Misiones Province, Argentina,
December 2005, courtesy of Oz Rittner.
I have seen an image from Merida, Venezuela, from mid January.
Johan van't Bosch reports a September flight in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Milena Nascimento sent me an image of a specimen collected on March 28, 2004, while nectaring at dusk on flowers, including bouncing bet (Saponaria officinalis) and Asystasia gangetica in Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba, Carapebus, RJ, Brazil.
Nigel Venters has taken them in Cordoba Province, Argentina in November-December. They probably fly in other months as well.
ECLOSION:Adults eclose from pupae formed in loose cocoons spun among surface litter.Erinnyis ello pupa courtesy of Dan Janzen. |
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Erinnyis ello male courtesy of Dan Janzen.
Erinnyis ello female courtesy of Dan Janzen.
Ben Trott writes, "I've also attached a photo of an Erinnyis ello egg on Papaya (there were five on the same small sapling, one per leaf, laid on the upperside, in full sunlight), and an Erinnyis ello larva in its third instar also on the same tree."
Erinnyis ello egg, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico,
courtesy of Ben Trott.
Erinnyis ello third instar, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico,
courtesy of Ben Trott.
Erinnyis ello, October 24, 2005,
Bentsen-RGV State Park, Mission, Hidalgo County, courtesy of Mike Quinn.
Erinnyis ello, October 25, 2006,
western Hidalgo County, courtesy of Gil Quintanilla,
tentative id by Bill Oehlke, confirmed by Jim Tuttle.
Erinnyis ello, fifth instar on silver buttonwood bush, Conocarpus erectus,
Indialantic, Brevard County, Florida, October 13, 2008, courtesy of Donna Peters,
tentative id by Bill Oehlke, confirmed by Jim Tuttle.
Erinnyis ello female pupa, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico,
courtesy of Ben Trott.
Erinnyis ello male, Indialantic, Brevard County, Florida, November 10, 2008, courtesy of Donna Peters.
Visit additional Erinnyis ello larval images, Indialantic, Brevard County, Florida, courtesy of Donna Peters.
Visit Erinnyis ello fifth instar and adult, ex-pupa male, Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, November 21, 2008, courtesy of Larry Valentine.
Visit Erinnyis ello male, Osununu, Misiones, Argentina, March 2009, courtesy of Ezequiel Bustos.
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