Nyceryx continua continua
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009
Updated as per CATE (description; Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina); February 19, 2011
Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Osvaldo Núñez Bustos (Campo Ramon, Misiones, Argentina, September 25, 2010); May 14, 2012

Nyceryx continua continua
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Walker, 1856

Nyceryx continua male, Campo Ramon, Misiones, Argentina,
September 25, 2010, courtesy of Ezequiel Osvaldo Núñez Bustos.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Nyceryx Boisduval, [1875] ...........
Species: continua continua Walker, 1856

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DISTRIBUTION:

Nyceryx continua continua flies in
Brazil the specimen type locality: Sao Paulo: Alto da Serra; Rio Grande do Sul;
Peru: (possibly subspecies cratera in Peru);
Bolivia (possibly subspecies cratera in La Paz, Bolivia);
Argentina: Misiones (EB).

Nyceryx continua male courtesy of Hubert Mayer copyright.

Pronotum (dorsal, first thoracic segment) without a darker transverse line; anterior upper part of tegula without spot and inner edge almost pure white. Forewing upperside with the lines in basal costal area absent or vestigial; antemedian band filled with black, very oblique; discal spot rather large, dot in front of it distinct; apical black half-moon not distinctly separate from the black marginal area. Hindwing upperside with yellow basal area extending to inner margin. CATE

FLIGHT TIMES:

Moths are probably on the wing in just about every month. Ezequiel Bustos confirms a September flight in Misiones Province, Argentina.

ECLOSION:

Adults eclose, usually within three weeks.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen.

Nyceryx continua continua

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae feed on ??

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Nyceryx continua continua male, Alto da Serra, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
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