Manduca contracta
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, October 2007
Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, October, 2007
Updated as per personal communication with Nigel Venters (November 16, 2009, Calilegua, Jujuy, Argentina, 750m); November 2009
Updated as per personal communication with Sergio D. R�os D�az in CAT�LOGO DE LOS SPHINGIDAE (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA) DEPOSITADOS EN EL MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL DEL PARAGUAY; sent to me in July 2014 by Sergio D. R�os D�az.
Updated as per personal communication with Joanna Rodriguez Ramirez (Misiones; Argentina), January 21, 2015
Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Bustos (Shilap revta. lepid. 43 (172) diciembre, 2015, 615-631 eISSN 2340-4078 ISSN 0300-5267), January 4, 2016
Updated as per personal communication with Lucius Rabello Vasconcellos (Vargem Bonita, Minas Gerais, Brazil, November 3, 2020), November 4, 2020
Updated as per personal communication with Marcos Cesar Campis (Minas Gerais, Brazil); December 5, 2021

Manduca contracta
(Butler, 1875) Protoparce

Manduca contracta, Calilegua, Jujuy, Argentina,
96mm, 750m, courtesy of Nigel venters.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Sphinginae, Latreille, [1802]
Tribe: Sphingini, Latreille, 1802
Genus: Manduca Hubner, [1807] ...........
Species: contracta (Butler, 1875)

DISTRIBUTION:

Manduca contracta (wingspan approximately 95-105mm), flies in
Bolivia (specimen type locality): Santa Cruz, La Paz (450-750m), Chuquisaca;
Paraguay: Concepcion; Paragauri; and in
northern Argentina Buenos Aires??, Catamarca, Corrientes, Jujuy (NV), Salta, Tucuman; Misiones (JRR);
southern Brazil: Minas Gerais: Vargem Bonita (LRV) and
possibly in Uruguay.

Manduca contracta, Vargem Bonita, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
November 3, 2020, courtesy of Lucius Rabello Vasconcellos,
confirmed by Jean Haxaire.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Manduca contracta adults fly in February-March-April-May, July, November-December.

Both males and females come to lights.

Manduca contracta, Minas Gerais, Brazil, courtesy of Marcos Cesar Campis

ECLOSION:

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

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

Larva have been reported on ??

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