Stolidoptera tachasara | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Genus: | Stolidoptera |
Species: | S. tachasara |
Binomial name | |
Stolidoptera tachasara | |
Synonyms | |
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Stolidoptera tachasara is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1888.
It is found in Mexico and Central America, as well as Venezuela in northern South America. It has also been spotted in Bolivia. [2]
The wingspan is 79–92 mm.
Adults are on wing nearly year round (except March and December) in Costa Rica.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Thalia geniculata and Prunus annularis .
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Stolidoptera is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. The genus was discovered by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903.
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Aleuron neglectum is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903.
Xylophanes cyrene is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1881. It is found in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize and south to Oxapampa in Peru.
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Perigonia pallida is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903.
Ambulyx kuangtungensis is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Rudolf Mell in 1922.