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

Proteides mercurius mercurius ♀ last instar,
COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Prov.: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Sector El Hacha,
Laguna Agua Buena, 220m, collected on 06-I-1995 as penultimate instar, photographed on 17-I-1995
foodplant Lonchocarpus guatemalensis
voucher code 95-SRNP-74, image code 95-SRNP-74-DHJ21261.jpg
image from http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu/