Manduca brontes

Manduca brontes
	Manduca brontes, adult
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Manduca
Species:	M. brontes
Binomial name
	Manduca brontes; (Drury, 1773)
Synonyms
	Sphinx brontes Drury, 1773; Macrosila collaris Walker, 1856; Protoparce brontes smythi Clark, 1919; Sphinx brontes pamphilius Stoll, 1782; Sphinx brontes cubensis Grote, 1865; Protoparce brontes haitiensis Clark, 1916;

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.

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)

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