Neogene reevei
Updated as per the L.O.L.A. publication Hawkmoths of Argentina, More, Kitching and Cocucci, 2005, October 2007.
Updated as per personal communication with Fernando Penco, Argentina, May 2008
Updated as per personal communication with Carlos Marzano (Villa Amancay, Cardoba, Argentina; December20, 2007); March 23, 2012

Neogene reevei
(Druce, 1882)

Neogene reevei, Argentina, courtesy of Fernando Penco.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Sphinginae, Latreille, 1802
Tribe: Sphingini, Latreille, 1802
Genus: Neogene Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 ...........
Species: reevei Druce, 1882

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DISTRIBUTION:

Neogene reevei (wingspan: ) flies in
Paraguay;
Argentina: Cordoba, Entre Rios, La Rioja, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman; and
Brazil.

Sphinx baruta Berg, 1883, Argentina, is same as Neogene reevei;
Sphinx cossoides Rothschild, 1894, Brazil, is same as Neogene reevei;
minor B. P. Clark, 1938, Paraguay, is same as Neogene reevei.

It has been taken at elevations from 21m to 1056m.

Neogene reevei, Villa Amancay, Cardoba, Argentina,
December 20, 2007, courtesy of Carlos Marzano.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Neogene reevei adults fly in March in Santiago del Estero (FP). Reports exist for January in Cordoba and February in Tucuman. Carlos Marzano reports there is also a December flight in Cardoba, Argentina.

Neogene reevei, Villa Amancay, Cardoba, Argentina,
December 20, 2007, courtesy of Carlos Marzano.

ECLOSION:

Pupae probably wiggle to surface from subterranean chambers just prior to eclosion.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen. Adults probably nectar at a variety of flowers.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae feed on

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