hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) Description
Lepidoptera - Sphingidae - Macroglossum stellatarum. This image has been created to improve the noise of the original for FPC on the English Wikipedia. Noise reduction has been performed with Neatimage.
Date July 7th, 2006. Rhône, France.
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The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of moth. The hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but is resident only in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Order: Lepidoptera, Family: Sphingidae, Genus: Macroglossum, Species: Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758), Synonyms: Sphinx stellatarum Linnaeus, 1758.