If you have corrections to offer, please contact This checklist is probably not terribly accurate.
I fully expect there may be some omissions and probably many erroneous inclusions. I
have used a checklist for Argentina as a starting point, but the two countries are separated by the Andes and may have quite different fauna.
Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com.
Please note: this list is very tentative, and highly speculative. Only two species listed have specimen types from Chile, Manduca sexta caestri and Hyles annei.
Manduca sexta caestri, Paine, forming part of Greater Santiago,
and a commune in the Maipo Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile,
courtesy of Nicolas Palacios Prado, tentative id by Bill Oehlke
The Sphingidae biodiversity in Chile is probably much less than indicated below.
Higher altitude, drier climate, colder temperatures, etc, probably do not provide suitable habitat for many of the more tropical species.
This updated page is inspired by Bernhard Wenczel who raised some questions about Sphingidae in Chile, April 18, 2011, and it is dedicated to
Fernando Calvo of Chile who sends these sighting reports:
Hyles annei flies between Copiapó and Angol;
Hyles euphorbiarum flies between Arica and Rancagua;
Hyles lineata flies between Santiago and Angol;
Manduca sexta (no data);
Agrius cingulata (no data).
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