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Species Manduca florestan - Hodges#7782

Representative Images

Unknown Madera Canyon Moth - Manduca florestan Black light - Manduca florestan Sphinx Moth? - Manduca florestan Southeast AZ sphingid - Manduca florestan Manduca florestan? - Manduca florestan Manduca florestan? - Manduca florestan Manduca florestan? - Manduca florestan Arizona Moth - Manduca florestan
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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Bombycoidea (Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths)
Family Sphingidae (Sphinx Moths)
Subfamily Sphinginae
Tribe Sphingini
Genus Manduca
Species florestan (Manduca florestan - Hodges#7782)

Hodges Number

7782

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Manduca florestan (Stoll, [1782])
Sphinx florestan Stoll, [1782]

Size

Forewing length 43-50 mm. (1)
Wingspan: 99–110 mm (2)

Range

Southeastern Arizona south to Brazil. (1)

Season

Adults fly late-June to early August. (1)

Food

Larval hosts are fiddlewood (Citharexylum) and yellow trumpetbush (Tecoma stans). (1)

See Also

Compare with Ceratomia sonorensis. C. sonorensis is smaller and some specimens will have the dark streaks on the forewing, although generally less pronounced. Also, M. florestan has greenish cast to the thorax. (3), (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – species page (5)
BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (2)

Works Cited

1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
3.Moths of Southeast Arizona
4.Manduca florestan or Ceratomia sonorensis ?
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Ethan Kistler on 17 February, 2007 - 3:50pm
Additional contributions by Jason D. Roberts, Vox Sciurorum, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 6 January, 2020 - 6:37am

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