Sphingini thumbnails

Argentina Sphingini:
Agrius, Amphimoea, Neococytius, Lintneria,
Cocytius, Amphonyx, Euryglottis

Lintneria maura, Amancay, Cordoba, Argentina,
December 2008, courtesy of Dr. Carlos Marzano.

This page is dedicated to and inspired by Carlos Marzano who has sent me some beautiful images of Sphingidae from Argentina. Many thanks to other Sphingidae breeders and collectors for their image submissions.

This tentative checklist will become more accurate as images and information are sent to me. If you would like to assist in the development of this worldwide Sphingidae data/image base, please send info and images to Bill Oehlke.

I have arranged the images in accordance with my perception of wing characters: predominent markings, shape, colour, size.

Females often have a wing shape or pattern that differs from the males. I hope some day to also have a thumbnail checklist for the females.

Agrius, Amphimoea, Neococytius


Agrius cingulata
Distinctive thoracic pattern
Lateral abdominal patches deep pink; occasionally off-white: form "decolora"
Black upper halves of am and pm lines and two thin black streaks below cell delineate a slightly darker grey-brown subtrapezoidal area.
Considerable whitish scaling tracing outer pm line from costa to inner margin
Sbtrmnl area: three sub-rectangular markings from middle toward anal angle.
Amphimoea walkeri
Distinct abdominal pattern of longitudinal yellow and black lines
Forewing ground colour yellowish-buff with prominent darker markings;
two bars emanating below cell, widen diffusely (often maroon) to pm lines
Hindwing discal area semi-transparent
Neococytius cluentius
Abdomen with six large lateral yellow marks, surrounded by black on each side
Forewing dark charcoal grey with very prominent wide orangey-buff band along inner margin, and another similar wide band from the cell to the outer margin




Lintneria


Lintneria aurigutta

Lintneria phalerata

Lintneria justiciae

Lintneria maura

Cocytius, Amphonyx, Morcocytius, Pseudococytius
The Cocytius genus has recently been divided into several new genera. The moths listed below were previously all considered Cocytius species.


Cocytius antaeus
Fw upperside semitransparent posterior to vein CuA1; black dash here consequently more or less obliterated; dash posterior to vein M3 heavier, buffish white subbasal line separated into costal, more distal disco-cellular, and posterior part, differing from Cocytius duponchel in that posterior part is more distal, at right-angles to cubital vein and more distal than costal part; the reverse is true in Cocytius duponchel; postdiscal line more curved than in Cocytius duponchel. Both wings undersides often with conspicuous ochre-yellow wash. Hindwing upperside with transparent spaces long, that posterior to vein M1 obviously longer than the brown wing border is broad; these spaces incised distally as the border is dentate between veins; a semitransparent patch that posterior to vein CuA2 anteriorly.








Amphonyx duponchel
Two thin dark streaks from upper thorax to mid thorax where they expand into teardrops.
Forewing upperside with black discal dashes between veins M3 and CuA2 not prominent; discal spot transverse, kidney-shaped, dirty white. Hindwing upperside with translucent patch posterior to vein M1 shorter than the black marginal band is broad at vein M1
Amphonyx lucifer
Thorax: black markings prominent against greyish green.
Abdomen: mesial line usually prominent, sometimes faint or widely interrupted.
Ground colour varies from walnut shell, yellowish-brown to greenish-grey.
Two narrow, distinct dark streaks posterior to veins M3 and CuA1.

Neogene


Neogene albescens
Cordoba, La Pampa, La Rioja, Salta
January, October-November
250-800m
Neogene carrerasi

Neogene reevei

Euryglottis


Euryglottis guttiventris -->
 Abdomen underside with apical spots on sternites 3-5 distinct, more so than in Euryglottis aper; basal patch pale. Forewing upperside with discal band and vein-streaks less distinct than in Euryglottis aper.
Jujuy
September-November, February
750-2050m

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Sphingini: Agrius, Amphimoea, Cocytius, Euryglottis, Lintneria, Sphinx
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