About Manduca florestan Stoll, 1782
Manduca florestan, first described by Stoll in 1782, has a wingspan ranging from 99 to 110 mm. Its distribution extends from the mountains of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and the lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas, through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the remainder of Central America, south into South America at least as far as Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Suriname. This species has also been spotted in New South Wales, Australia.
