I'd like to have a name for this guy. There were 5 or 6 of them zipping around the flower bed on the coast of Peru about 120 kms south of Lima.
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Nice photo! :) :) – Fiksdal Sep 13 '17 at 20:42
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That is a hawkmoth, probably Hyles annei (Guerin-Meneville, 1839). It is one of a number of moth species commonly called "hummingbird," "sphinx," or "hawk" moths in the family Sphingidae.
Beautiful, isn't it? :)
edit - sorry, I originally misidentified this as Hyles lineata - the pattern is slightly different.
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4Image search on "hawkmoth" turns up some stellar photos. Here is a close-up of an eye. – DavidS Mar 19 '16 at 00:14
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