What is Sphingidae?
{{Taxobox | name = Hawk moths | image = Macroglossum stellatarum1 NR.jpg | image_width = 200px | image_caption = [[Macroglossum stellatarum|Hummingbird hawk-moth]]<br/>''Macroglossum stellatarum'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropoda]] | classis = [[Insecta]] | ordo = [[Lepidoptera]] | unranked_familia = [[Macrolepidoptera]] | superfamilia = [[Bombycoidea]] | familia = '''Sphingidae''' | subdivision_ranks = [[Subfamilies]] | subdivision = [[Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)|Macroglossinae]]<br/> [[Smerinthinae]]<br/> [[Sphinginae]] }} '''Sphingidae''' is a family of moths ([[Lepidoptera]]), commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths and hornworms. It includes about 1,450 species.<ref>{{cite journal| author=van Nieukerken| title=Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness | journal=Zootaxa| volume=3148| year=2011| pages=212–221| url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf|display-authors=etal| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41 }}</ref> It is best represented in the [[tropics]] but there are species in every region.<ref name=scoble>Scoble, Malcolm J. (1995): ''The Lepidoptera: form, function and diversity''. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press & Natural History Museum London. {{ISBN|0-19-854952-0}}</ref> They can fly fast, and their wings can be linked by [[wing coupling]]. They can hover, and can move from side to side while hovering. This may be to deal with [[ambush predator]]s that lie in wait in [[flowers]].<ref name=kitching>{{cite journal | last1 = Kitching | first1 = Ian J | year = 2002 | title = The phylogenetic relationships of Morgan's Sphinx, ''Xanthopan morganii'' (Walker), the tribe Acherontiini, and allied long-tongued hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, Sphinginae) | url = | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 135 | issue = 4| pages = 471–527 | doi = 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00021.x }}</ref> == Species == There are around 1200 species of hawk moth, clas