Rocky Mountain Clearwing (Hemaris thetis)

About Rocky Mountain Clearwing (Hemaris thetis)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Insects
• Order: Butterflies and Moths
• Family: Sphinx Moths

Comments: Western North American populations, east to about the Continental Divide, that were previously treated as Hemaris diffinis are now a distinct species, Hemaris thetis (Schmidt 2009). Tuttle's (2007) concept of H. senta was in part H. thetis.