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Xylophanes sp.
huge green moth
cloudforest, 2000m
This moth flew into my room at Otun Santuario Quimbaya. It was surprisingly calm and didn't fly around much.
And I unfortunately have to close my Macbook for a lecture, need a restart and will hence loose all my screens. Depending on discussions, I will come back to step in ;-)...
Xylophanes crotonis is my closest guess...
http://www.bio-nica.info/Ento/Lepido/sph...
http://www.aprairiehaven.com/wp-content/...
Well, it seems that in a couple of species, the younger the moth, the greenier the color...There is also X. crotonis, and X. letirantis similar in color and shape...
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/SphColo...
X. porcus looks too brown in my thoughts. I used the same website (Kirby Wolfe), and I think X. porcus is too brown and lacked the lines on the forewings.
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/xporcus...
It looks like Xylophanes porcus continentalis, I found the following link
http://foter.com/Xylophanes/
and also
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/xporcco...
There are so many Xylophanes, I'm not sure we can get to a species, but you did say it was found at 2000m, so maybe altitude might help with this one...