Reference photo of a pinned Hemaris diffinis specimen, upper side

Reference photo

Photo: Stephen Nachtsheim; rights holder Department of Bioagricultural Sciences, Colorado State University · C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University (via Ecdysis) · CC0 1.0 (cropped and resized). Not the specimen in Lucy’s drawer.

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Hemaris diffinis

(Boisduval, 1836)

Snowberry Clearwing

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Your framed specimen is a different individual of the same species, chosen and mounted by Lucy.

  • Sphingidae
  • Moth
  • Species range includes Texas
For young explorers

This moth looks like a bumblebee and hovers like a hummingbird.

This day-flying sphinx moth, with clear wing patches and a fuzzy gold-and-black body, mimics a bumblebee but hovers at flowers like a hummingbird.

Catalog label
Family
Sphingidae
Subfamily
Macroglossinae
Tribe
Dilophonotini
Where it lives
North America.

From the catalog of Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD. A mounted specimen from a licensed supplier.

Research notes

From published sources, not from Lucy’s catalog. Each note lists where it came from.

Where it lives

One source puts its range east of the Continental Divide, covering much of the United States as far as Maine and Florida. Just east of the Divide its range partly overlaps with a western relative. Another source lists it as native to the United States and Canada, with records from several Canadian provinces, including Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

Conservation

NatureServe ranks it as secure worldwide, though it may be scarce in some places, mostly near the edges of its range. NatureServe also lists it as secure in Canada. One source says it has no reported conservation needs.

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