Bembecia scopigera

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| taxon = Bembecia scopigera

| authority = (Scopoli, 1763)[http://www.sesiidae.net/Checklst.htm Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World]

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• Sphinx scopigera Scopoli, 1763
• Dipsosphecia communis Le Cerf, 1920
• Bembecia mira Gorbunov & Špatenka, 2001
• Sesia scopigera ab. lugubris Staudinger, 1871

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Bembecia scopigera, the six-belted clearwing, is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is found from central Spain over most of south-western and central Europe, the Balkans, Greece, southern Russia and Ukraine[https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191057/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=440107 Fauna Europaea] to Turkey.[http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/issues/zoo-05-29-1/zoo-29-1-4-0402-1.pdf A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Sesiidae of Turkey (Lepidoptera)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214853/http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/issues/zoo-05-29-1/zoo-29-1-4-0402-1.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}

The wingspan is 24–25 mm.[https://archive.today/20130416104200/http://www.lepidoptera.pl/show.php?ID=3755&country=XX lepidoptera.pl]

The larvae feed on the roots of Onobrychis species, including Onobrychis sativa, Onobrychis viciinifolia and Onobrychis toumefortii species.[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/sesioidea/sesiidae/sesiinae/bembecia/index.html Bembecia at funet] Other records include Lotus species and Anthyllis vulneraria.