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Updated as per http://biological-diversity.info/sphingidae.htm (Belize), November 2007 Updated as per Fauna Entomologica De Nicarauga, November 2007 Updated as per The Known Sphingidae of Costa Rica, November 2007 Updated as per personal communication with Evan Rand: Arizona Sphingidae: Santa Cruz County (July-August); September 2010 |
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TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802 |
MIDI MUSICcopyright C. Odenkirk ON.OFF |
The specimen type locality is Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Manduca occulta can be differentiated from M. sexta which has 2/3 black, 1/3 white checkering on the forewing, while occulta has equal amounts of black and white checkering.
Manduca occulta, Nicaragua, courtesy of Michel Laguerre, id by Jean Haxaire.
In Nicaragua, Michel Laguerre reports them on the wing in July-August and October.
Evan Rand reports them in southern Arizona: Santa Cruz county, in July and early August.
Manduca occulta, California Gulch, Atascola Mtns., Santa Cruz Co., AZ,
July 21, 2010, 3800 ft, courtesy of Evan Rand.
Larvae look much like Manduca dilucida.
The tongue loop is long like that of a small Manduca rustica. |
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Larvae are subject to parasitization by Drino rhoeo and Drino piceiventris of the Tachinidae family and by Microplitis espinachi and Meteorus congregatus of the Braconidae family.
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