Manduca florestan
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| name = Florestan sphinx
| image = Sphingidae. Manduca florestan - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg
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| taxon = Manduca florestan
| authority = (Stoll, 1782)[https://archive.today/20120724061250/http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Manduca/florestan.html CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae]
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- Sphinx florestan Stoll, 1782
- Protoparce maricina Schaus, 1941
- Diludia brevimargo Butler, 1875
- Protoparce florestan vogli Daniel, 1949
- Protoparce florestan cabnal Schaus, 1932
- Protoparce florestan argentinica Daniel, 1949
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Manduca florestan, the Florestan sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782.
Manduca florestan MHNT CUT 2010 0 69 Catemaco Veracruz Mexico male dorsal.jpg|Male, dorsal view
Manduca florestan MHNT CUT 2010 0 69 Catemaco Veracruz Mexico male ventral.jpg|Male, ventral view
Manduca florestan MHNT CUT 2010 0 353 Catemaco Veracruz Mexico female dorsal.jpg| Female, dorsal
Manduca florestan MHNT CUT 2010 0 353 Catemaco Veracruz Mexico female ventral.jpg| Female ventral
Distribution
It is found from the mountains of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and the lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the rest of Central America south into South America at least to Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Suriname.[http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/mflorest.htm Silkmoths] they have also been spotted in N.S.W Australia.
Description
Image:Manduca florestan variation sjh.JPG
The wingspan is 99–110 mm.
Biology
There is one generation with adults on wing from late June to early August in the United States. In Bolivia, adults have been reported in March and again from October to December, while adults are on wing year round in Costa Rica. They feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Plumeria rubra in Costa Rica.
The larvae feed on Tecoma and Citharexylum species, Stachytarpheta frantzii, Callicarpa acuminata, Aegiphylla martinicensis, Citharexylum costaricensis, Tabebuia ochracea, Callichlamys latifolia, Cydista heterophylla, Cydista diversifolia, Crescentia alata, Macfadyena unguis-cati, Cordia panamensis, Cordia alliodora and Chionentis panamensis. In Brazil, larvae have been reported on Lantana camara, Pyrostegia venusta and Vitex megapotamica.
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051109063722/http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/usa/1075.htm Manduca florestan] Moths of North America
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Category:Moths described in 1782
Category:Sphingidae of South America
Category:Moths of Central America