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Manduca brontes
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Butterflies & moths

Manduca brontes

Names

English—
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Chinese—
Sranan Tongokapelka (general name for the group)
Scientific nameManduca brontes Drury, 1773

About this species

Manduca brontes is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is known from Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic and Suriname.

Adults are on wing from April to June in Florida.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tecoma species (including Tecoma stans), Fraxinus americana, Fraxinus excelsior and Fraxinus platycarpa.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilySphingidae
GenusManduca

Related species in Suriname