Zygaena transalpina
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Zygaenidae |
| Genus: | Zygaena |
| Species: | Z. transalpina |
| Binomial name | |
| Zygaena transalpina (Esper, 1780) | |
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Zygaena transalpina is a moth of the Zygaenidae family. It is found from Germany to Croatia and Italy and from Spain to Austria and Slovenia.[1]
The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adults are on wing from the end of June to August in one generation per year.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Hippocrepis comosa and sometimes Coronilla varia and Lotus corniculatus. Larvae can be found from August, after overwintering, to June of the following year.
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Both sides
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Yellow form
Subspecies
- Zygaena transalpina transalpina
- Zygaena transalpina alpina Boisduval, 1834
- Zygaena transalpina altitudinaria Turati, 1910
- Zygaena transalpina annae Aistleitner, 1979
- Zygaena transalpina astragali (Borkhausen, 1793)
- Zygaena transalpina bavarica Burgeff, 1922
- Zygaena transalpina centralis Oberthur, 1907
- Zygaena transalpina centricataloniae Burgeff, 1926
- Zygaena transalpina centripyrenaea Burgeff, 1926
- Zygaena transalpina collina Burgeff, 1926
- Zygaena transalpina curtisi Tremewan, 1961
- Zygaena transalpina dufayi Dujardin, 1965
- Zygaena transalpina emendata Verity, 1916
- Zygaena transalpina gulsensis Daniel, 1954
- Zygaena transalpina helvetica Bethune-Baker & Rothschild, 1921
- Zygaena transalpina hilfi Reiss, 1922
- Zygaena transalpina hippocrepidis Hübner, 1799
- Zygaena transalpina intermedia Rocci, 1914
- Zygaena transalpina jugi Burgeff, 1926
- Zygaena transalpina latina Verity, 1920
- Zygaena transalpina maritima Oberthur, 1898
- Zygaena transalpina marujae Tremewan & Manley, 1965
- Zygaena transalpina miltosa Candeze, 1883
- Zygaena transalpina philippsi Romei, 1927
- Zygaena transalpina provincialis Oberthur, 1907
- Zygaena transalpina pseudoalpina Turati, 1910
- Zygaena transalpina rupicola Rocci, 1936
- Zygaena transalpina sorrentinaeformis Rocci, 1938
- Zygaena transalpina splugena Burgeff, 1926
- Zygaena transalpina subalticola Rocci, 1918
- Zygaena transalpina tenuissima Burgeff, 1914
- Zygaena transalpina tilaventa Holik, 1935
- Zygaena transalpina xanthographa Germar, 1836
References
External links
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- Heiner Ziegler: Schmetterlinge am Calanda
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
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