Smerinthini thumbnails

Dilophonotini:
Aleuron, Enyo, Pachylia, Pachylioides, Unzela
Thumbnails: Argentina

This tentative checklist will become more accurate as images and information are sent to me. If you would like to assist in the development of this worldwide Sphingidae data/image base, please send info and images to Bill Oehlke.

I have arranged the images in accordance with my perception of wing characters: predominent markings, shape, colour, size.

Females often have a wing shape or pattern that differs from the males. I hope some day to also have a thumbnail checklist for the females.

Aleuron


Aleuron chloroptera
No black belts around adomen
Almost uniform drab grey-green with nine, weak, more or less evenly dentate transverse lines between base of CuA2 and outer margin.
Small, darker crescents in submarginal area.
Aleuron neglectum
Similar to iphis.
Abdominal white belt much narrower than in iphis. Fw: black median lines indistinct posteriorly, except the basal most, which is bordered white basally but not distally, except at costal margin.

Enyo


Enyo lugubris
Body, wings dark brown.
Fw: large black patch covering most of outer half of wing.
Pale tan cell spot with small dark inner pupil,
Fairly straight median line to inside of cell spot.


Junin
Enyo gorgon
Forewing apex produced, with concave outer edge, not straight cut as in Enyo cavifer.
Lower half of wing noticeably darker than upper half.





Junin
Enyo ocypete
Fw: dark area not sharply defined, prolonged along antemedian line to posterior margin.
Discal spot small.
Male hw: diagnostic pale yellowish-white anal patch.
Females similar to Enyo lugubris lugubris, but have broad brown belt across base of abdomen (this belt either very narrow or absent in Enyo lugubris lugubris).
Junin

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Pachylia and Pachylioides


Pachylioides resumens
Pachylia ficus
Pachylia syces syces

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Unzela
Unzela japix discrepens


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Visit Argentina Thumbnail Checklists:

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


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