Updated as per personal communication with Michel Lapointe
Updated as per personal communication with Jean Haxaire, (La Vega, Dominican Republic); March 13, 2017

Perigonia glaucescens
Walker, 1856

Perigonia glaucescens courtesy of Michel Lapointe.

Perigonia glaucescens La Vega, Dominican Republic,
courtesy of Jean Haxaire

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Perigonia Herrich-Schaffer, ]1854] ...........
Species: glaucescens Walker, 1856

DISTRIBUTION:

Perigonia glaucescens moths fly in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

FLIGHT TIMES:

ECLOSION:

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

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