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Manduca afflicta

Synonyms: Manduca paphus

Wikipedia Abstract

Manduca afflicta is a moth of the family Sphingidae known from Cuba and the Bahamas. It is similar to Manduca sexta. Adults feed on nectar from flowers. The larvae have been recorded on feeding on Cestrum diurnum, the day-blooming jessamine, a member of the Solanaceae family.
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Infraspecies

Manduca afflicta afflicta
Manduca afflicta bahamensis

Prey / Diet

Cestrum auriculatum (day flowering jassamine)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0