Hemaris radians

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Hemaris radians
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Hemaris
Species:
H. radians
Binomial name
Hemaris radians
(Walker, 1856) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sesia radiansWalker, 1856
  • Hemaris mandarinaButler, 1875
  • Macroglossa fuciformisbrunneobasalis Staudinger, 1892

Hemaris radians is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from southern Siberia, Mongolia, the southern Russian Far East, north-eastern and central-eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. [2]

The wingspan is 37–40 mm. Adults are on wing from mid-May to late July in Korea.

It looks like a bee, but it is not.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Lonicera and Rubia species in the Russian Far East and Lonicera japonica in Korea.

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References

  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. Pittaway, A. R.; Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Hemaris radians (Walker, 1856)". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved December 15, 2018.