Hemaris tityus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Sphingidae → subfamily Macroglossinae → tribe Dilophonotini → subtribe Hemarina → genus Hemaris → species Hemaris tityus
Species name(s)
Hemaris tityus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Sphinx tityus Linnaeus, 1758 = fuciformis (Poda, 1761) = Sphinx bombyliformis Linnaeus, 1758 = Sphinx musca Retzius, 1783 = Macroglossa scabiosae Zeller, 1869 = Macroglossa knautiae Zeller, 1869 = Haemorrhagia tityus alaiana Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 = reducta (Closs, 1917) = ferrugineus (Stepha, 1924) = flavescens Cockayne, 1953 = karaugomica (Wojtusiak & Niesiozowksi, 1946) = saldaitisi Eitschberger, Danner & Surholt, 1998 = Hemaris (Mandarina) alaiana. [9, 10]
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#1. Kaliningradsky*; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky.
* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.
Primary colors
Orange, Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia , Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad (?) Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky , Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species
- Skabiozovy hobotnik similar to the shmelevidnym (Hemaris fuciformis), but differs in that the medial cell forewing vein is not split. [5].
General info about Imago
- Lifestyle is also similar to that of zhimolostevogo hawk (hobotnika shmelevidnogo), as well as appearance. [5].
General info about Larva
- Caterpillar is also similar to the larva hobotnika shmelevidnogo. [5].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Scabiosa, Succisa pratensis, Knautia arvensis, Galium verum, Lonicera xylosteum, Symphoricarpos rivularis. [28].
Subspecies of Hemaris tityus
- Hemaris tityus aksana Le Cerf, 1923. [187]
- H. t. alaiana Rothschild & Jordan. [187]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Vitaly Gumenuk, Yury Sokolkov. Text data: Peter Khramov.
The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.
References
- [1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
- [3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
- [5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
- [9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
- [10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
- [28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
- [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
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