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Updated as per http://www.pybio.org/MACROGLOSSINAE.htm (Paraguay), November 2007 Updated as per personal communication with Johan van't Bosch (Mato Grosso, Brazil, September 22), March 2008 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 (Villavivencio, Meta, Colombia, January 10, 2011, 500m); February 7, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Shirley Sekarajasingham (Loreto, Peru, September 22, 2008); October 5, 2012 |
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Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com
Comments, suggestions and/or additional information are welcomed by Bill.
TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
MIDI MUSICcopyright C. Odenkirk ON.OFF |
This species occasionally strays into Florida and southern Texas in July.
Surinam is the specimen type locality.
Erinnyis oenotrus, 68mm, Calilegua, Jujuy, Argentina,
November 17, 2009, 750m, courtesy of Nigel Venters.
The underside of the abdomen has two black spots. The male's forewing is dark brown, while the female's forewing is gray with mottled brown markings. The black border of the hindwing blends (blurs) into the orange background color. Related species have more distinct orange and black areas.
Erinnyis oenotrus, Yacutinga Private Reserve, Misiones Province,
(near border between Argentina and Brazil),
courtesy/copyright of Ezequiel Osvaldo Núñez Bustos.
Erinnyis oenotrus male, Loreto, Peru,
September 22, 2008, courtesy of Shirley Sekarajasingham, id by Bill Oehlke
During the night adults nectar at flowers, including bouncing bet (Saponaria officinalis).
ECLOSION:Adults eclose from pupae formed in loose cocoons spun among surface litter. Eclosions can occur within fourteen days.Erinnyis oenotrus pupa courtesy of Dan Janzen. |
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Erinnyis oenotrus female courtesy of Dan Janzen.
Erinnyis oenotrus female, Villavivencio, Meta, Colombia,
January 10, 2011, 500m, courtesy of Gregory Nielsen.