Sphingidae: Philampelini: Eumorpha of Ecuador
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.
Philampelini
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Eumorpha fasciatus, the Banded Sphinx
Fw ground colour is dark brown with two broad, beige, intersecting transverse bands, one running from the apex to middle
of fw-body juncture, the other running preapically to near midpoint of inner margin. Much thinner beige lines trace the veins
in the post median area.
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Eumorpha vitis
the Vine Sphinx: Forewing is generally quite similar to fasciatus, but note much longer internal extension
of the lowest thin beige post median line into the median area. In fasciatus, this lower thin line in the median area is only a very short dash before meeting
the broad transverse lines. Vitis lacks the broad pink band, found in fasciatus, along the hindwing outer margin.
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Eumorpha labruscae the Gaudy Sphinx:
Fw ground colour bright green to grey-green with a darker triangular median area, delineated by very dark
am line and dark median line.
There is a brownish blotch near midpoint of outer line of darker triangular area, followed
by a beige blotch along the inner margin.
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Eumorpha phorbas: Fw ground colour grey-green with series of lighter grey-green bars, dashes, lines:
am line runs straight from costa to inner margin; apical pm line runs straight toward intersection of am line and i.m.,
but is broken at about 40% of its course by an L-shaped line that turns at about 135 degrees toward aml/im juncture.
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