Updated as per personal communication with Vadim Kroutov, (Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, 29mm
, Updated as per personal communication with Jean Haxaire, (La Vega, Dominican Republic); March 13, 2017

Erinnyis guttularis
Walker, 1856

Erinnyis guttularis male, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic,
29mm, courtesy of Vadim Kroutov.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Erinnyis Hubner, [1819] ...........
Species: guttularis Walker, 1856

DISTRIBUTION:

Erinnyis guttularis (Wing span: males: 29mm // females 33mm), flies in the Dominican Republic, the specimen type locality.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Erinnyis guttularis probably broods continuously in the tropics.

Adults nectar at flowers.

ECLOSION:

Adults eclose from pupae formed in loose cocoons spun among surface litter.

Erinnyis guttularis male, La Vega, Dominican Republic,
courtesy of Jean Haxaire.

Erinnyis guttularis female, La Vega, Dominican Republic,
courtesy of Jean Haxaire.

SCENTING AND MATING:

Females call in the males with a pheromone released from a gland at the tip of the abdomen.

Erinnyis guttularis female, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic,
33mm, courtesy of Vadim Kroutov.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larvae probably feed on papaya (Carica papaya), nettlespurge (Jatropha), and allamanda (Allamanda).

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