Manduca rustica
Distribution: Chile to southern USA, Greater and Lesser Antilles.
Type locality: 'America'.
Synonyms: Phlegethontius rustica auct.;
Sphinx chionanthi J.E. Smith 1797;
Protoparce auriflua Gehlen 1930.
E. Caribbean records: St. Lucia; Guadeloupe; Martinique; St. Martin; St. Bart's;
Marie-Galante; Dominica; Barbados; St. Vincent.
Grenadines records: Union (Daudin); Bequia, Union, Canouan, Petite Martinique,
Mayero, Quatre,
Battowia, Palm (E.U. Exp.).
Method of identification: illustrated in colour by d’Abrera (1986) p.29 and
by Hodges (1971) plate 1, fig. 5.
Notes: the larva feeds on various Verbenaceae and Boraginaceae.
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