Manduca sexta
Manduca sexta Linnaeus 1763
- Insecta
- order Lepidoptera
- superfamily Bombycoidea
- family Sphingidae
- subfamily Sphinginae
- tribe Sphingini
- genus Manduca
Common Names
Carolina Sphinx Moth (English)
Languages: English
Summary
General comments
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
N=1 rearing as of 2012, eclosed.
Life history
Foodplant Associations
Rubiaceae: Hamelia patens
Distribution
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.


