Manduca lanuginosa
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Manduca lanuginosa is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of moth (Sphingidae).
features
The moths have a fore wing length of 57 to 70 millimeters. Their coloring varies significantly. The color spectrum ranges from weakly drawn animals, which look similar to Manduca muscosa , to animals drawn in contrasting light and dark patterns, which resemble brightly colored Ceratomia species. The butterflies lack both the white discal spot on the front wings and the yellow markings on the abdomen. That and its gray-colored shoulders and the diffuse gray-brown wing coloring clearly distinguish the species from similar swarmers. However, the basic color of the forewings varies from dark brown to light gray. It differs from Manduca florestan in that it is duller, more uniform in color, the black spots on the sides of the abdomen are less intensely black than in the similar species. Other similar species are Manduca dilucida and Manduca barnesi .
Manduca lanuginosa ♀
Manduca lanuginosa ♀ △
The caterpillars have a green, yellowish-green or blackish-purple basic color. When fully grown, they have a certain resemblance to those of Manduca rustica due to their rough body and pattern . They have seven sloping, white side stripes, which are bordered in a strong reddish purple. On the back, the stripes continue in a line of small, black, ringed, white dots. The back is heavily covered with white secondary bristles, which arise from white, thorny appendages on the thorax and from white dots on the abdomen. The anal horn is reddish purple and very granular. The side stripes are not as prominent as in the caterpillars of Manduca florestan .
The pupa is deep blackish purple and has a smooth surface. The proboscis sheath is very short, only slightly separated from the body and ends in a thickened point.
Occurrence
The species is neotropical from Mexico to Central America. From the United States of America only a single record from Hidalgo County (Texas) is known.
Manduca lanuginosa inhabits dry forests and is distributed in Costa Rica on the Pacific side of the Area de Conservacion Pacifico Central and from there northwards.
Way of life
Butterflies have been observed visiting Calliandra marginata at night .
Flight and caterpillar times
The species flies in one generation in Costa Rica during the rainy season from May to June.
Food of the caterpillars
The tracks are at Cydista heterophylla , Arrabidaea chica , Arrabidaea molissima , Crescentia alata , Cydista diversifolia , Tabebuia ochracea and Macfadyena unguis-cati of the family Bignoniaceae (Bignoniaceae) and Cornutia grandifolia and Rehdera trinervis from the family of iron herb plants demonstrated (Verbenaceae).
development
The caterpillars, ready to pupate, dig themselves three to ten centimeters deep into the ground and pupate within four to five days in a dug chamber. The pupal rest is sometimes only six weeks, but they often linger from pupation in June to May of the following year.
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f James P. Tuttle: The Hawkmoths of North America, A Natural History Study of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Washington, DC 2007, ISBN 978-0-9796633-0-7 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Sphingidae of the Americas. Bill Oehlke, accessed December 28, 2011 .
literature
- James P. Tuttle: The Hawkmoths of North America, A Natural History Study of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Washington, DC 2007, ISBN 978-0-9796633-0-7 .
