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Sphinx Moth

Xylophanes sp.

Description:

huge green moth

Habitat:

cloudforest, 2000m

Notes:

This moth flew into my room at Otun Santuario Quimbaya. It was surprisingly calm and didn't fly around much.

3 Species ID Suggestions

Sphinx Moth
Xylophanes sp. BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser
Porcus Sphinx
Xylophanes porcus Xylophanes porcus
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Crotonis Sphinx
Xylophanes crotonis Xylophanes crotonis


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6 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

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 ;-)...

DespinaTsafetopoulou
DespinaTsafetopoulou 10 years ago

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...

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

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...

DespinaTsafetopoulou
DespinaTsafetopoulou 10 years ago

It looks like Xylophanes porcus continentalis, I found the following link
http://foter.com/Xylophanes/
and also
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/xporcco...

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

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...

Dan Doucette
Spotted by
Dan Doucette

Risaralda, Colombia

Spotted on Apr 8, 2013
Submitted on Apr 8, 2013

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