Xylophanes crotonis Walker, 1856 is a animal in the Sphingidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Xylophanes crotonis Walker, 1856
Xylophanes crotonis is a moth species with distinct larvae, found from Guatemala south to Bolivia.
Xylophanes crotonis, first described by Walker in 1856, has a wingspan ranging from 91 to 97 millimetres, which equals 3.6 to 3.8 inches. Its larvae can be green, turquoise, or purplish, and are marked with yellow dots. In their second instar, these larvae do not have eyespots. This species is distributed across Guatemala, Colombia, and Venezuela, and its range extends southward to Bolivia.
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