Aellopos
Aellopos titan
Aellopos is a genus of butterflies of the family of moth ( Sphingidae ).
Features
The small butterflies are brown in color with a white pattern of varying intensity on the wings. Newly hatched imagoes have an almost black color, with a slightly iridescent green and pink shading. Your body is stocky, a conspicuous silvery- white band is in most species on the back of the fourth abdominal segment. The antennae are short and hook-shaped at its tip curved. The species of the genus are very similar and can be easily confused.
Occurrence and life
The genus is distributed mainly in tropical America. Three species Aellopos titan, Aellopos clavipes and Aellopos tantalus also occur in the southern areas of the United States to a fourth type, Aellopos Fadus is known there as a regular Irrgast.
System
Worldwide six species of the genus are known:
- Aellopos blaini Herrich -Schäffer,
- Aellopos ceculus ( Cramer, 1777)
- Aellopos clavipes ( Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Aellopos Fadus ( Cramer, 1775)
- Aellopos tantalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aellopos titan ( Cramer, 1777)