Hyles annei
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, October 2007
Updated as per personal communication with Patrick Demez (Peru, Ica Province, Ica City, Puente Blanco, last week of Agust 2009); September 7, 2009
Updated as per personal communication with Chris Snyers (Peru, Lima, January 13, 2010); January 14, 2010
Updated as per personal communication with Eric LoPresti (Peru: Lambayeque: Pacora); December 11, 2012
Updated as per personal communication with Joanna Rodriguez Ramirez (Mendoza; Argentina), January 21, 2015

Hyles annei
(Guerin-Meneville, 1839) Sphinx

Hyles annei, Puente Blanco, Ica, southwestern Peru, last week in August, 2009, courtesy of Patrick Demez.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Macroglossini, Harris, 1839
Genus: Hyles Hubner, [1819] ...........
Species: annei (Guerin-Meneville, 1839)

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DISTRIBUTION:

Hyles annei flies in Chile,
Bolivia: La Paz: Murillo, La Paz;
western Peru: Ica (Patrick Demez); Lima (Chris Snyers); Pecora: Lambayeque (EL); and
Argentina: San Juan; Mendoza (JRR).

Hyles annei, Lima, Peru, January 13, 2010, courtesy of Chris Snyers.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Hyles annei adults fly in January (CS) and August (PD) and probably in other months.

Hyles annei courtesy of Andres Angulo

ECLOSION:

Pupae probably wiggle to surface from subterranean chambers just prior to eclosion.

Hyles annei, Pacora, Lambayeque, Peru,
courtesy of Eric Lopresti.

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larval hosts are unknown to me, but I suspect they will eat a great diversity of plants including willow weed (Epilobium), four o'clock (Mirabilis), evening primrose (Oenothera), grape (Vitis), tomato (Lycopersicon), purslane (Portulaca), Fuschia, Gaura lindheimerii, Alternanthera pungens and Euphorbia dentata (toothed spurge), or closely related plants suited to a dry climate.

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