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 Manduca sexta Linnaeus 1763

(Sphingidae)

Host plant: Various Solanaceae
 
Caterpillar Description
Adult Images

 Other Images
Determined by: Dyer/Gentry

 

LIFE HISTORY DATA

Rearing results and development time

 

Host plants

Solanaceae: S. rudepanum,

Solanum adherens, S. jamaicense, S. heteroclitum (Lycianthes synanthera) (Gentry unpub.)

Parasitoids

 Tachinidae

Predators

 

Observations and comments

 

Voucher location

 Tulane University