First record of Xylophanes ploetzi (M&ouml;schler, 1876) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Brazil

Gilcélia M. Lourido; Catarina da S. Motta

doi:10.15560/13.6.1055

Check List 13(6): 1055-1058, doi: 10.15560/13.6.1055

First record of Xylophanes ploetzi (Möschler, 1876) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Brazil

Gilcélia M. Lourido^‡, Catarina da S. Motta^§

‡ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil§ In memoriam, Manaus, Brazil

Corresponding author: Gilcélia M. Lourido ( gilourido@yahoo.com.br )

Academic editor: Ricardo Russo Siewert

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Citation: Lourido GM, Motta C da S (2017) First record of Xylophanes ploetzi (Möschler, 1876) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Brazil. Check List 13(6): 1055-1058. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1055

Abstract

Two specimens of Xylophanes ploetzi (Möschler, 1876) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) were collected in Manaus representing the first record from Brazil.

Keywords

Hawkmoths; taxonomy of Lepidoptera; central Amazon; Brazilian Amazon