Sesiidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Sesiidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sesiidae
The Sesiidae or clearwing moths are a diurnal moth family in the order Lepidoptera known for their Batesian mimicry in both appearance and behaviour of various Hymenoptera.
The family consists of 165 genera spread over two subfamilies, containing in total 1525 species and 49 subspecies, most of which occur in the tropics, though there are many species in the Holarctic region as well, including over a hundred species known to occur in Europe.: Backcover, 6
...Sesiidae in languages:
- Bulgarian
- Стъкленки
- Chinese
- 透翅蛾科
- Czech
- nesytkovití
- Danish
- Glassværmere
- English
- Clearwing Moths
- Estonian
- Klaastiiblased
- Finnish
- lasisiipiset
- German
- Glasflügler
- Hebrew
- זכוכעשיים
- Hungarian
- szitkárfélék
- Japanese
- スカシバガ科
- Korean
- 유리나방과
- Lithuanian
- Stiklasparniai
- Russian
- Стеклянницы
- Swedish
- glasvingar
- Thai
- วงศ์มอธปีกใส
- Ukrainian
- Склівки
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