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Perigonia Herrich-Schäffer
Hawk moth
FMNHINS 0000 804 137 · gbif-1142320496
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Sphingidae › Perigonia
- Collected
- 1917-04-09
- Collector
- Not recorded
- Region
- Peru
- Elevation
- Not recorded
- Sex / stage
- Indeterminate · Adult
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
- License
- CC0 1.0
Locality
Original label text
Iquitos
AI-recommended
Iquitos, Peru
Curator-approved
Pending review
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “Night collecting, artificial light”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Artificial light attraction93%
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Near stream crossing; humid microhabitat.
Digitization & audit history
- transcribed · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142320496, occurrenceID 29cff143-b1ed-40da-83b9-49a4db9f0913. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID 29cff143-b1ed-40da-83b9-49a4db9f0913
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