''Hemaris galunae'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Ulf Eitschberger, Günter C. Müller and Vasiliy D. Kravchenko in 2005. It is known from

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. Some authors regard ''Hemaris galunae'' as a dry zone form of '' H. tityus'' or as an isolated eastern population of '' H. aksana'', left stranded as North Africa dried out after the last ice age. It is similar to '' H. tityus'' and '' H. radians'', but with a broader marginal band on both forewing and hindwing. The abdominal tufts are almost black with few light brown or light yellow hair-like scales.

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G Moths of Asia Moths of the Middle East Moths described in 2005 {{Dilophonotini-stub