Xylophanes adalia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Xylophanes
- Species
- Xylophanes adalia
- Scientific Name
- Xylophanes adalia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Xylophanes adalia
Xylophanes adalia is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1881. It is known from Panama, Costa Rica north to south-eastern Belize and Mexico. In the south, it ranges as far as Ecuador.
The wingspan is 55–56 mm. The females are larger than the males. It is similar to Xylophanes depuiseti and Xylophanes ploetzi, but the underside of the body and wings is more golden yellow and the lines on the forewing upperside are more distinct.
Adults are on wing in January in Ecuador and possibly longer elsewhere.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Psychotria panamensis, Psychotria nervosa and Pavonia guanacastensis.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Xylophanes acrus
- Xylophanes adalia
- Xylophanes aglaor
- Xylophanes alexandrei
- Xylophanes alineae
- Xylophanes alvarezsierrai
- Xylophanes amadis
- Xylophanes anubus
- Xylophanes aristor
- Xylophanes balcazari
- Xylophanes barbuti
- Xylophanes belti
- Xylophanes beneluzi
- Xylophanes bilineata
- Xylophanes ceratomioides
- Xylophanes chiron
- Xylophanes clarki
- Xylophanes colinae
- Xylophanes colombiana
- Xylophanes cosmius
- Xylophanes crenulata
- Xylophanes crotonis
- Xylophanes cthulhu
- Xylophanes cyrene
- Xylophanes damocrita
- Xylophanes depuiseti
- Xylophanes docilis
- Xylophanes dolius
- Xylophanes elara
- Xylophanes epaphus
- Xylophanes eumedon
- Xylophanes falco
- Xylophanes fassli
- Xylophanes fernandezi
- Xylophanes ferotinus
- Xylophanes fosteri
- Xylophanes furtadoi
- Xylophanes fusimacula
- Xylophanes germen
- Xylophanes godmani
- Xylophanes guianensis
- Xylophanes gundlachi
- Xylophanes gundlachii
- Xylophanes hannemanni
- Xylophanes haxairei
- Xylophanes huloti
- Xylophanes hydrata
- Xylophanes indistincta
- Xylophanes irrorata
- Xylophanes isaon
- Xylophanes jamaicensis
- Xylophanes jordani
- Xylophanes josephinae
- Xylophanes juanita
- Xylophanes kaempferi
- Xylophanes katharinae
- Xylophanes kiefferi
- Xylophanes lamontangei
- Xylophanes letiranti
- Xylophanes libya
- Xylophanes lichyi
- Xylophanes loelia
- Xylophanes lolita
- Xylophanes macasensis
- Xylophanes maculator
- Xylophanes marginalis
- Xylophanes mariae
- Xylophanes media
- Xylophanes meridanus
- Xylophanes mineti
- Xylophanes mirabilis
- Xylophanes monzoni
- Xylophanes mossi
- Xylophanes mulleri
- Xylophanes nabuchodonosor
- Xylophanes neoptolemus
- Xylophanes norfolki
- Xylophanes obscurus
- Xylophanes ockendeni
- Xylophanes pearsoni
- Xylophanes pistacina
- Xylophanes ploetzi
- Xylophanes pluto
- Xylophanes porcus
- Xylophanes porioni
- Xylophanes pyrrhus
- Xylophanes resta
- Xylophanes reussi
- Xylophanes rhodina
- Xylophanes rhodocera
- Xylophanes rhodochlora
- Xylophanes rhodotus
- Xylophanes robinsoni
- Xylophanes robinsonii
- Xylophanes rothschildi
- Xylophanes rufescens
- Xylophanes sarae
- Xylophanes schausi
- Xylophanes schreiteri
- Xylophanes schwartzi
- Xylophanes soaresi
- Xylophanes staudingeri
- Xylophanes suana
- Xylophanes tersa
- Xylophanes thyelia
- Xylophanes titana
- Xylophanes turbata
- Xylophanes tyndarus
- Xylophanes undata
- Xylophanes vagliai
- Xylophanes virescens
- Xylophanes xylobotes
- Xylophanes yuliyae
- Xylophanes zurcheri