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Xylophanes chiron (Drury, 1773)
Chiron sphinx
SIM-INS-330456 · emu-sim-ins-0007
Olive-green hawk moth common at light.
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Sphingidae › Xylophanes
- Collected
- 1989-09-12
- Collector
- J. T. Holloway
- Region
- Madre de Dios, Peru
- Elevation
- 340 m
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Locality
Original label text
Pakitza, Manu
AI-recommended
Pakitza, Manu, Manu, Madre de Dios, Peru
Curator-approved
Pending review
Emu locality hierarchy: Peru › Madre de Dios › Manu › Pakitza, Manu (LOC-PE-MDD-021)
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “Light trap, mixed Lepidoptera”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Artificial light attraction99%
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Bulk light-trap sample sorted 1990; 212 Lepidoptera in lot.
Digitization & audit history
- transcribed · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Field Museum collections record.
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