Xylophanes pistacina: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Xylophanes
- Species
- Xylophanes pistacina
- Scientific Name
- Xylophanes pistacina
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Xylophanes pistacina
Xylophanes pistacina is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Nicaragua south to Brazil and west to Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.
The wingspan is 75–87 mm. The upperside of the abdomen has no lines. The ground colour is generally greenish-buff, although some individuals are much greener. The subbasal and antemedian lines are vestigial, the two distal lines forming a band at the apex of the discal cell. The two proximal postmedian lines are more or less merged to form a band, the inner of which is often straight. The third postmedian line is very faint and the fourth is more distinct and emphasized by vein dots. Postmedian lines two to four are dentate and postmedian line five is curved from the wing apex and continuous with a greenish olive patch. The brown border is broad. The pale band is highly suffused with olive-brown.
Adults are probably on wing year-round in Costa Rica.
The larvae possibly feed on Psychotria species.
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Parent Taxon
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- Xylophanes colinae
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- Xylophanes cthulhu
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- Xylophanes depuiseti
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- Xylophanes epaphus
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- Xylophanes fernandezi
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- 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
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- Xylophanes mirabilis
- Xylophanes monzoni
- Xylophanes mossi
- Xylophanes mulleri
- Xylophanes nabuchodonosor
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- 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
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