Hemaris saldaitisi Eitschberger, Danner & Surholt, 1998 [Invalid]

Synonymized with Hemaris tityus by Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, Hawkmoths of the world: 48. Implicitly reinstated as a species by Eitschberger, Kravchenko, Li, Speidel, Witt & Müller, 2005, Atalanta 36: 203. Resynonymized with Hemaris tityus by Kitching and Rougerie et al., 2018, Biodivers. Data J. 6: e22236. Hemaris saldaitisi was distinguished from Hemaris tityus on the basis that the forewing marginal band was very narrow, that of the hindwing was almost absent, the right harpe was flat, rather elongate and straight, with a barely enlarged apex, and the phallus was slightly longer. Kitching & Cadiou (2000) (STI 18788) considered these diagnostic features all fell within the range of individual variation of Hemaris tityus and synonymized Hemaris saldaitisi with that species. Eitschberger et al. (2005) (STI 17797) reinstated Hemaris saldaitisi as a species but gave no reason for doing so and made no attempt to refute the arguments of Kitching & Cadiou, which are therefore still considered to hold.