Hemaris radians

Hemaris radians
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Sphingidae
Genus:	Hemaris
Species:	H. radians
Binomial name
	Hemaris radians; (Walker, 1856)
Synonyms
	Sesia radians Walker, 1856; Hemaris mandarina Butler, 1875; Macroglossa fuciformis brunneobasalis 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.

References

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

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