Manduca sesquiplex: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Manduca
- Species
- Manduca sesquiplex
- Scientific Name
- Manduca sesquiplex
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Manduca sesquiplex
Manduca sesquiplex is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Mexico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The wingspan is 119–120 mm. The ground colour of the body and wings is whitish smoky grey, while ssp. opima is more greenish. There is probably one generation per year with adults on wing from September to November in Costa Rica. In Nicaragua, there appear to be at least three generations with records for May, July and September.
The larvae probably feed on Solanaceae species.
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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



