Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Bustos (Aguas Blancas, Salta, Argentina, 405m); December 2009
Updated as per More, Kitching and Cocucci's Hawkmoths of Argentina 2005, December 2009
Updated as per AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE SPHINGIDAE OF BOLIVIA, December 2009
Updated as per CATE Sphingidae (Venezuela: Aragua, Falcon; Ecuador; Peru: Puno; Brazil; Argentina); May 14, 2011

Erinnyis impunctata
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)

Erinnyis impunctata, Aguas Blancas, Salta, Argentina,
January 1999, courtesy of Ezequiel Bustos.

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TAXONOMY:

Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Erinnyis Hubner, [1819] ...........
Species: impunctata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

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DISTRIBUTION:

Erinnyis impunctata (Wing span: ), flies in
Venezuela, Falcon: Aroa, the specimen type locality; Aragua;
Ecuador;
Peru: Puno: Carabaya;
Bolivia: Beni, Santa Cruz;
Brazil; and
Argentina: Salta (405m EB), Cordoba, Corrientes.

It might also fly in Colombia WO??; and possibly in Paraguay.

Erinnyis impunctata is quite similar to Erinnyis lassauxii f. merianae, but impunctata is smaller and lacks black dots on the underside of the abdomen.

FLIGHT TIMES:

Erinnyis impunctata probably broods continuously in the tropics. Ezequiel Bustos reports a January flight in Argentina.

Adults nectar at flowers.

ECLOSION:

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

SCENTING AND MATING:

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

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE:

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

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