| Nyceryx magna | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Nyceryx |
| Species: | N. magna |
| Binomial name | |
| Nyceryx magna | |
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Nyceryx magna is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
It is known from Brazil, Costa Rica and Ecuador. [2]
It can be distinguished from other Nyceryx species by the dark forewing upperside and the brownish-orange basal area and pale purple bands in the tornal angle of the hindwing upperside.
Adults are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Pentagonia donnell-smithii . Early instar larvae have very large heads and elongated tails. The head has a distinctive blue-green colour in the final instar and the tail is shorter and rough. The pupa is smooth and shiny with alternating light and dark bands on the abdomen.
Eumorpha triangulum is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Xylophanes anubus is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777.
Xylophanes dolius is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Ecuador and Bolivia.
Xylophanes fernandezi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Colombia and Venezuela.
Xylophanes rothschildi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru south to Bolivia.
Eupyrrhoglossum sagra, the Cuban sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Felipe Poey in 1832. It is known from tropical and subtropical lowlands in Cuba and from Mexico and Belize to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. Occasionally, strays are found in Florida.
Isognathus leachii is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Nyceryx tacita is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1888. It is found from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama to Bolivia.
Nyceryx stuarti is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae.
Nyceryx riscus is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Nyceryx coffaeae is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Costa Rica into South America, where it is known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Nyceryx nephus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Brazil.
Nyceryx maxwelli is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Bolivia and Venezuela.
Nyceryx alophus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Brazil to Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Nyceryx continua is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.
Nyceryx eximia is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico, as well as Ecuador.
Nyceryx nictitans is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Brazil to Argentina and in Peru and Bolivia.
Pachygonidia drucei is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Panama and Costa Rica north to Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.
Eumorpha cissi is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Eumorpha megaeacus is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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