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A piece of tree bark??? Amazing camouflage and huge...fully a 6 inch wingspan on this moth...
Thank you...yes, bayucca, I agree...
I am pretty sure it is not Manduca rustica. I think it might be Amphonyx lucifer, formerly called Cocytius lucifer. But I am not 100% sure, you have to verify. If you look at the pictures in the links you can again see the great variability. Yours seems to be quite a fresh one with excellent markings, whereas some of the specimens are old and worn and colors partly washed out. And there is also a difference in coloring between females and males.
http://www.guianensis.fr/images/sphingid...
http://www.lepbarcoding.org/sphingidae/s...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36494393@N0...
http://www.guianensis.fr/images/imagos/S...
And here would be Manduca rustica:
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/mrustru...
Sphingidae sp. commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths and hornworms, includes about 1,200 species. It is best represented in the tropics but there are species in every region