Manduca brontes ssp. brontes

Distribution: Greater Antilles, straying into Florida; northern S. America (as a variety of subspecies).
Type locality: Jamaica.
Synonyms: Macrosila collaris Walker 1856; Sphinx cubensis Grote 1865.
Source of record: Schreiber (1978); Gowdey (1926); Carey (1951).
Method of identification: illustrated in colour by d’Abrera (1986) p.30 and by Hodges (1971) plate 1, fig. 8.
Notes: the illustration is modified from Seitz (1925) pl. 92, fig. b1 (as 'haitensis').

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