Proteides mercurius mercurius (Fabricius, 1787);  Comments: continental, S Texas to Argentina, SE Arizona as rare stray TL: French Guiana.

Proteides mercurius mercurius ,
COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Prov.: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Sector Santa Rosa,
Vado Nisperal, 10m, collected on 21-VII-1993 as penpenpenultimate instar, photographed on 08-VIII-1993
foodplant Lonchocarpus orotinus
voucher code 93-SRNP-3867, image code 93-SRNP-3867-DHJ26185.jpg
and 93-SRNP-3867-DHJ26184.jpg
image from http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu/