Zygaena sarpedon
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Zygaenidae |
| Genus: | Zygaena |
| Species: | Z. sarpedon
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| Binomial name | |
| Zygaena sarpedon | |
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'Zygaena carmencita' Oberthür, 1910 | |
Zygaena sarpedon is a moth of the Zygaenidae family. It is found in France, Italy and on the Iberian Peninsula.
Technical description and variation (Seitz)[edit]
Z. sarpedon. This species is the first of a group of red-banded Burnets from the Mediterranean coasts which have only 3 red spots on the forewing: the anterior and the posterior wedge-spots and a small, rounded, drop-like spot corresponding to the distal portion of the central streak. — In the name-typical form, the small sarpedon Hbn., the colour is pale, but distinctly red; hindwing with a vitreous streak from the base to the middle. Spain; South France. — trimaculata Esp. is a little larger; the wings are entirely limpid, the red spots of the forewing being only feebly marked, while the hindwing is almost entirely transparent; Balearic Is., perhaps occasionally also among the previous. — balearica Boisd. (= sarpedon H. Sch.) is considerably larger and more densely scaled than the 2 previous; hindwing beautifully red, narrowly edged with black. Spain, South France, and Piemont. — vernetensis Oberth.[ junior synonym of sarpedon ssp. carmencita Oberthür, 1910 ], from the Pyrenees, has the forewing as in balearica, but the hindwing is black, with two red streaks, one each in and below cell. — Besides these (partly) geographical forms two aberrations have received names, the light yellow one: ab. flava Oberth., and the one with confluent spots: ab. confluens Dziurz. — Larva much variegated, green, with brown subdorsal and lateral lines, a subdorsal row of black dots, black stigmata, and black head edged with reddish; till June on Eryngium. Pupa in a brown cocoon. Imago flying in July and August on stubble and sunny fallow fields.[2] The wingspan is 24–28 mm.
Biology[edit]
Adults are on wing from May to August depending on the location. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Eryngium species, including Eryngium campestre,[3] Eryngium bourgatti and Eryngium maritimum. Larvae can be found from April to May in Italy. Pupation takes place in a blackish-brown pupa in a whitish cocoon spun on the underside of the host plant, under rocks or in low vegetation.[4]
Subspecies[edit]
- Zygaena sarpedon sarpedon
- Zygaena sarpedon algecirensis Reiss, 1927
- Zygaena sarpedon balearica Boisduval, [1828]
- Zygaena sarpedon hispanica Rambur, 1866
- Zygaena sarpedon carmencita Oberthur, 1910
- Zygaena sarpedon confluenta Reiss, 1927
- Zygaena sarpedon hispanica Rambur, 1866
- Zygaena sarpedon leuzensis Dujardin, 1956
- Zygaena sarpedon lusitanica Reiss, 1936
- Zygaena sarpedon pictonorum Bernardi & Viette 1959
- Zygaena sarpedon variabilis Burgeff 1926
- Zygaena sarpedon xerophila Dujardin 1956
References[edit]
- ^ Fauna Europaea[dead link]
- ^ Seitz, A., 1913, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 22.,The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Fauna 2. Volume: The Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges. pdf
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- ^ pyrgus.de
- ^ Lot Moths and Butterflies
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