Zygaena fraxini

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Zygaena fraxini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Zygaenidae
Genus: Zygaena
Species:
Z. fraxini
Binomial name
Zygaena fraxini
Synonyms
  • Zygaena scovitziiMénétriés, 1832
  • Zygaena oribasusHerrich-Schäffer, 1846
  • Zygaena rognadaBoisduval, 1848
  • Zygaena slabyianaReiss, 1937

Zygaena fraxini is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.It is a Palearctic confined to Western Asia.

Technical description and variation (Seitz)

Z. fraxini Men. (= oribasus H.-Sch., carneolica Freyer, rogdana Boisd.) (7e) is the first of a series of species from Western and Central Asia. The 2 basal spots of the forewing are united to a large vivid red patch which occupies the entire basal area. Of the central pair of spots the lower one is always much the larger, if the two spots are not merged; the distal spots are united to a severally incised, often very irregular patch. The red spots are partly edged with white, the abdomen being always entirely black in the name-typical form. Armenia.— In perdita Stgr. [ Z. fraxini ssp. perdita Staudinger, 1887 ] from the Caucasus, the central spots are white, not being or scarcely centred with red, and the hindwing is broadly edged with black. — scovitzii Men. [Synonym for Z. fraxini Ménétriés, 1832 (7e) has a broad rosy red collar and sometimes a red abdominal belt, on the hindwing a small, black, usually triangular spot being attached to the middle of the narrow black distal margin; Persia and the Pamir. [1]

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References

  1. Adalbert Seitz, 1913, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 22., The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Fauna 2. Volume: The Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges. pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .