Syntypes Honduras; Mexico [?MNHN; ?CMNH]. The male labelled "type" in CMNH is also labelled "Cuba" and was probably obtained by Boisduval after the description of Perigonia ilus.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Perigonia lusca by Druce, 1881, Biologia cent.-am. (Zool.) Lepid. Heterocera 1: 3. Reinstated as a species by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 636. Synonymized with Perigonia lusca as a form by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 427 (key), 428. Treated as a subspecies of Perigonia lusca by Bryk, 1953, Ark. Zool. (N.S.) 5: 154. Synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Bridges, 1993, Cat. Fam. Gen. Spec. Sphingidae of the World: VIII.19. Reinstated as a species by Haxaire, 1996, Lambillionea 96: 347. Synonymized with Perigonia lusca lusca by Carcasson & Heppner, 1996, Atlas Neotrop. Lepid. 4B: 56. Reinstated as a species by Haxaire & Herbin, 1999, Rev. Assoc. rouss. Ent. 8: 71.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
