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Aleuron iphis

species of moth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ605158 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aleuron iphis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856

Distribution

It is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica to Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil.

Description

The wingspan is 52–57 mm.

Biology

Adults are on wing from at least July to January in Costa Rica.

The larvae feed on Tetracera volubilis, Curatella americana and probably other Dilleniaceae species.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q605158. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1856.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aleuron iphis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.