FAMILY SPHINGIDAE
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Macroglossum faro Cramer
Sphinx faro Cramer, 1780, Uitl. Kapell. 3: 165.
Macroglossum faro Cramer; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 665.


Macroglossum faro
(.85 natural size)


Diagnosis.
See Macroglossum passalus Drury.

Geographical range. Oriental tropics to Sundaland, though not recorded by Diehl (1980) from Sumatra.

Habitat preference. A single specimen was taken in lowland rainforest at Ulu Belait, Brunei (Harman, 1981).

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