Manduca brontes
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| Manduca brontes | |
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| Manduca brontes, adult | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Manduca |
| Species: | M. brontes |
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| Manduca brontes (Drury, 1773)[1] |
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Manduca brontes is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It is known from Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic and Suriname.[2]
Adults are on wing from April to June in Florida.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tecoma species (including Tecoma stans), Fraxinus americana, Fraxinus excelsior and Fraxinus platycarpa.
[edit] Subspecies
- M. brontes brontes (Jamaica and Cuba, Greater Antilles and northern South America)
- M. brontes cubensis (Kitching and Cadiou, 2000) (Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands and Florida)
- M. brontes haitiensis (B.P. Clark, 1916) (Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
- M. brontes pamphilius (Cramer, 1782) (Suriname)
[edit] References
- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Manduca/brontes.html. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ^ "Silkmoths". Silkmoths.bizland.com. http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/mbronbro.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
[edit] External links
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Data related to Manduca brontes at Wikispecies
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