Sphingidae of Suriname

Agrius cingulata, courtesy of Paolo Mazzei.

This checklist has recently (May 18, 2011) been created to suggest possibilities for Sphingidae in Suriname. It is currently only a dupliction of what I have for neighbouring French Guiana, based on a Jean Haxaire publication in Lambillionea, 2/VI/2005, for French Guiana.

I have used the nomenclature from Kitching and Cadiou 2000.

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Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.

On April 28, 2011, I compared the Haxaire listing with French Guiana Sytematics and have added the following species:

Manduca duquefi Haxaire & Vaglia, 2007 (reducta) from Massif du Mitaraka Sud; CATE lists this species from Guyane, Petit Barrage.

Hemaris fuciformis, ?, (Linnaeus, 1758) Remire, Pointe Mahury, à vue de jour, 2/V/2002, (M.Thouvenot), coll. F.Beneluz (Import ??)

I retain the following from Jean Haxaire's original French Guiana list to me, but add the following notes.

Isognathus rimosa papayae is not included on the FG list; CATE lists it for Merida, Venezuela and indicates, "Unknown number and sex [French Guiana:] Cayenne (Année) [CMNH]; The type locality is doubtful. There is a syntype female in the CMNH that bears an additional label saying "Colomb." [Colombia], which may be the correct type location

Callionima falcifera is not included on the FG list: CATE as of 2009 continues to show French Guiana in red

Xylophanes ploetzi is not included on the FG list; CATE as of 2009 lists ploetzi for Venezuela: La Vuelta, Caura R.; and Guyana: Rio Demerera; and shows French Guina in red, supposedly indicating a known presence in that country.

I believe Manduca reducta was formerly thought to be in French Guiana, but duquefi has been found to be a distinct species, and replaces reducta outside of Ecuador and Peru. Thus I have not included reducta in this listing.

* Eitschberger, 2002, split specimens previously listed as Adhemarius ypsilon into two species: true ypsilon and roessleri. One or the other, but not both, flies in French Guiana. Eitschberger indicates roessleri.

Sphingini

Agrius cingulata *
Amphimoea walkeri *
Amph. duponchel *
Amph. l. lucifer *
Cocytius antaeus *
C. beelzebuth *
Cocytius mortuorum *
Manduca albiplaga *
Manduca brunalba *
M. d. dalica *
M. dif. tropicalis *
Manduca duquefi *
M. florestan *
M. hann. hannibal *
M. huascara *
M. lefeburii *
M. leucospila *
M. lucetius *
M. prestoni *
M. r. rustica *
M. s. paphus *
Manduca vestalis *
Neococyt. cluentius *
Smerinthini

A. g. gannascus *
A. palmeri *
A. daphne daphne *
A. gagarini *
A. roessleri *
A. ypsilon *
Protamb. eurycles *
Protambulyx goeldii *
Protam. s. strigilis *
P. sulphurea *
Dilophonotini

Aellopos ceculus *
Aellopos fadus *
Aellopos titan titan *
Aleuron carinata *
Aleuron chloroptera *
Aleuron iphis *
Aleuron neglectum *
Callionima falcifera
Callionima inuus *
Callionima nomius *
Callionima pan pan *
Callionima p. parce *
Enyo cavifer *
Enyo gorgon *
Enyo l. lugubris *
Enyo ocypete *
Erinnyis alope *
Erinnyis crameri *
Erinnyis domingonis *
Erinnyis ello ello *
Erinnyis lassauxi *
Erinnyis o. obscura *
Erinnyis oenotrus *
Eupyrrhogl. sagra *
Hema. fuciformis imp.
Hemeropl. ornatus *
H. triptolemus *
Isognathus c. caricae *
Isognathus excelsior *
Isognathus leachi *
I. menechus *
I. occidentalis *
I. rimosa papayae
Isognathus scyron *
Isog. swainsoni *
Madoryx b. bubastus *
Madoryx o. oiclus *
M. p. plutonius *
Nyceryx coffeae *
Nyceryx ericea *
Nyceryx maxwelli *
Nyceryx riscus *
Nyceryx stuarti *
Nyceryx tacita *
Oryba achemenides *
Oryba kadeni *
P. caliginosa *
Pachylia darceta *
Pachylia ficus *
Pachylia syces syces *
Pachylio. resumens *
Perigonia ilus *
Perigonia lusca *
Perigonia pallida *
Perigonia stulta *
Phryxus caicus *
Pseudosphinx tetrio *
Unzela japix *
Unzela pronoe *
Philampelini

Eum. anchemolus *
Eum. capronnieri *
Eumorpha fasciatus *
Eumorpha labruscae *
Eum. megaeacus *
Eumorpha obliquus *
Eumorpha phorbas *
E. satellita licaon *
Eumorpha vitis *
Macroglossini

Hyles livornica *
X. a. amadis *
Xylophanes anubus *
X. ceratomioides *
X. chiron nechus *
X. colinae *
Xylophanes elara *
X. epaphus *
X. fusimacula *
X. guianensis *
X. haxairei *
Xylophanes loelia *
Xylophanes media *
Xyl. neoptolemus *
Xyl. pistacina *
Xylophanes ploetzi
Xylophanes pluto *
X. po. continentalis *
Xyl. rufescens *
Xyl. tersa tersa *
Xylophanes thyelia *
Xylophanes titana *
Xylophanes tyndarus*






































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Sphingini: Manduca
Sphingini: Agrius, Amphimoea, Cocytius, Amphonyx, Morcocytius, Pseudococytius
Smerinthini: Adhemarius and Protambulyx
Dilophonotini: Aleuron, Enyo, Pachygonidia and Unzela
Dilophonotini: Aellopos, Eupyrrhoglossum, Nyceryx and Perigonia
Dilophonotini: Callionima, Erinnyis, Hemeroplanes, Isognathus, Madoryx, Oryba, Pachylia, Pachylioides, Phryxus and Pseudosphinx
Philampelini: Eumorpha
Macroglossini: Hyles and Xylophanes
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