Fig. 3.

A normal 1980s assembly of moths at the Cliff Top light trap about 2 wk after the beginning of the rainy season, at the dark of the moon, 9 to 10 PM. The large black, gray, and white sphingid in the center, Manduca rustica, is a migrant from the Caribbean rain forest side of ACG, arriving with the rains, after a flight of perhaps 20 to 40 km. There are five local and univoltine Manduca dilucida on the sheet, easily recognized by their paired white shoulder patches. The elongate abundant dark moths on the right half of the sheet are local and largely univoltine Crinodes besckei and C. ritsemae (Notodontidae). All four of these species are now rare at this light trap station, as are now their caterpillars in the forest at any time of year.