Insecta, Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Cocytius antaeus Drury: first record for Isla del Coco, Costa Rica and notes on its hostplant

Cocos Island (Isla del Coco) is a Costa Rican protected insular territory located in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (Figure 1). The area was declared National Park in 1978 and proclaimed World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997 and Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention in 1998. It is a young oceanic island, in full process of modeling its landscape and forming its biota (Montoya 1991; 2001). The natural arrival and establishment of new organisms in isolated and protected oceanic islands are events that, once identified, must be followed up to understand their behavior and to justify management procedures for proper conservation or eradication.