Antique Engraved Illustration Of The Hummingbird Hawk-moth. Vintage Illustration Of The Hummingbird Hawk-moth. Old

Antique engraved illustration of the hummingbird hawk-moth. Vintage illustration of the hummingbird hawk-moth. Old engraved picture of the hummingbird hawk-moth. The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. The hummingbird hawk-moth was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. As of 2018, its entire genome and mitogenome have been sequenced