Aellopos blaini Herrich-Schäffer, 1869

Hodecek, Jiri & Haxaire, Jean, 2025, A revised and annotated checklist of the hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of the Dominican Republic, with new records and distribution maps of chosen species, Zootaxa 5701 (4), pp. 401-427 : 419

Aellopos blaini Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 ( Fig 6. A, C )

General distribution. Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.

Distribution in the DR. Known only from two specimens from Barahona and Pedernales ( Fig 2. C ).

Habitat. It is probably a species of semi-desert dry environments, although it is difficult to generalize as only two specimens are known from the island.

Host plants. Larval stages and host plants unknown.

Material examined.

Haxaire: Pedernales, Cabo Rojo, Alcoa: 6 m, 4/2000, 1 ♂, leg. R. E. Woodruff and T. J. Henry .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Distributions of selected species of Sphingidae in the Dominican Republic.

FIGURE 6. The two Aellopos species recorded from the Dominican Republic: A) The only known collected specimen of Aellopos blaini from the Dominican Republic (McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity collection), B) Specimen of Aellopos tantalus zonata (Jean Haxaire collection), C) The only known photograph of Aellopos blaini from the Dominican Republic, D) Aellopos tantalus zonata. Photographs by Jean Haxaire (A, B), Luke Berg (C, https://www.inaturalist.org/ observations/259893174) and yeribel_duran (D, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99512410).