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Clearwings and Bee Hawkmoths
Hemaris
Hemaris is a genus of sphinx moths in the subfamily Macroglossinae, which is native to the Holarctic. Their main host plants are herbs and shrubs of the teasel and honeysuckle families. Moths in genus Hemaris are known collectively as clearwing moths in the US and Canada and bee hawk-moths in Britain. The related Old World hummingbird hawk-moths, genus Macroglossum, are similar in appearance and habits. Both genera have tails that are provided with an expansile truncated tuft of hairs, but only Hemaris has the disc of the wings transparent, as these scales are dropped soon after eclosion.
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Snowberry Clearwing
speciesHemaris diffinis
Hummingbird Clearwing
speciesHemaris thysbe
Broad-bordered Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris fuciformis
Rocky Mountain Clearwing
speciesHemaris thetis
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris tityus
Diervilla Clearwing
speciesHemaris aethra
Slender Clearwing
speciesHemaris gracilis
honeysuckle bee hawkmoth
speciesHemaris affinis
Olive Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris croatica
Hemaris radians
speciesHemaris radians
Hemaris ottonis
speciesHemaris ottonis
Hemaris staudingeri
speciesHemaris staudingeri
Pamir Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris ducalis
Hemaris beresowskii
speciesHemaris beresowskii
Atlas Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris aksana
Syrian Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris syra
Hemaris mandarina
speciesHemaris mandarina
Levant Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris galunae
Saunders's Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris saundersii
Alai Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris alaiana
Hemaris venata
speciesHemaris venata
Anatolian Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris dentata
Kashmir Bee Hawkmoth
speciesHemaris rubra
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51669.