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Xylophanes chiron (Drury, 1773)
Chiron sphinx
SIM-INS-305513 · emu-sim-ins-0085
Olive-green hawk moth common at light.
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Sphingidae › Xylophanes
- Collected
- 1963-01-17
- Collector
- P. Duarte
- Region
- Junín, Peru
- Elevation
- 750 m
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Locality
Original label text
Chanchamayo
AI-recommended
La Merced, Chanchamayo, Junín, Peru
Curator-approved
La Merced, Chanchamayo, Junín, Peru
Emu locality hierarchy: Peru › Junín › Chanchamayo › La Merced (LOC-PE-JUN-001)
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “Blacklight sampling after sunset”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Artificial light attraction97%
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Collector field book page cited on secondary label.
- Drawer 274B, cabinet Lep-7. Re-pinned 2011.
Digitization & audit history
- verified · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Field Museum collections record.
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