Manduca clarki: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Manduca
- Species
- Manduca clarki
- Scientific Name
- Manduca clarki
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Manduca clarki
Manduca clarki is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1916. It is known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
The length of the forewings is 45–50 mm. It is similar in appearance to several other members of the genus Manduca, but a number of differences distinguish it from Manduca scutata, Manduca pellenia and Manduca lucetius, to which it most closely compares, particularly in its smaller size, the grey pale parts of the upperside of the thorax and wings and the less elongate forewing shape.
There are at least two generations per year with adults on wing from November/December to January and again in July.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Manduca afflicta
- Manduca albiplaga
- Manduca albolineata
- Manduca andicola
- Manduca armatipes
- Manduca aztecus
- Manduca barnesi
- Manduca bergarmatipes
- Manduca bergi
- Manduca blackburni
- Manduca boliviana
- Manduca brasiliensis
- Manduca brontes
- Manduca brunalba
- Manduca camposi
- Manduca caribbea
- Manduca caribbeus
- Manduca chinchilla
- Manduca clarki
- Manduca contracta
- Manduca corallina
- Manduca corumbensis
- Manduca dalica
- Manduca diffissa
- Manduca dilucida
- Manduca duquefi
- Manduca empusa
- Manduca exiggus
- Manduca exiguus
- Manduca extrema
- Manduca feronia
- Manduca florestan
- Manduca fosteri
- Manduca franciscae
- Manduca gloriosa
- Manduca gueneei
- Manduca hannibal
- Manduca herbini
- Manduca huascara
- Manduca incisa
- Manduca janira
- Manduca jasminearum
- Manduca johanni
- Manduca jordani
- Manduca kuschei
- Manduca lamasi
- Manduca lanuginosa
- Manduca lefeburii
- Manduca leucospila
- Manduca lichenea
- Manduca lucetius
- Manduca manducoides
- Manduca morelia
- Manduca mossi
- Manduca muscosa
- Manduca neglecta
- Manduca occulta
- Manduca ochus
- Manduca paphus
- Manduca pellenia
- Manduca perplexa
- Manduca prestoni
- Manduca quinquemaculatus
- Manduca reducta
- Manduca rustica
- Manduca schausi
- Manduca scutata
- Manduca sesquiplex
- Manduca sexta
- Manduca stuarti
- Manduca trimacula
- Manduca tucumana
- Manduca undata
- Manduca vestalis
- Manduca violaalba
- Manduca wellingi
- Manduca ziva


