Zygaena is a genus of moths in the family Zygaenidae. These brightly coloured, day-flying moths are native to the West Palearctic.
Zygaena graslini is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Israel and Lebanon. in graslini the 6 spots of forewing are confluent in pairs, there being a basal, central and marginal red area separated by black bands. In the form confluens Oberth. [synonym of graslini ], from Syria, the basal and central areas are also confluent, the wing being red from the base to beyond the middle.
Zygaena fraxini is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.It is a Palearctic confined to Western Asia.
Zygaena cambysea is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in the Middle East, including Iran. It is rosy-red like cuvieri, but differs in the body being entirely black, without red collar and belt. In the form rosacea Rom. from Armenia the spots of the forewing are so merged that the wings appear almost evenly carmine.
Zygaena sarpedon is a moth of the Zygaenidae family. It is found in France, Italy and on the Iberian Peninsula.
Zygaena sedi is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. In Seitz it is described - Z. sedi Fab. (6k). In this insect the spots of each pair are merged to large light red patches, these being separated from each other only by thin lines of the transparent ground-colour. Abdomen without belt. Coasts of the Black Sea.
Zygaena brizae is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia.
Zygaena magiana is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Central Asia.
Zygaena truchmena is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Central Asia.
Zygaena olivieri is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Syria, Armenia and Georgia. Seitz describes it -In olivieri Boisd. (7h) not only the collar and 2—8 abdominal segments are red but also the patagia, the red spots of the forewing being very large; from Syria and Armenia.In subspecies Z. o. laetifica Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 the pairs of spots on forewing are separate. — In Z. o. ganimedes Freyer, [1851] from Amasia, the penultimate pair of spots and the apical patch are rather broadly connected and the red markings of the forewing have a white edge of about 1 mm width.
Zygaena tamara is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Zangazur və Daralayaz.
Zygaena cuvieri is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family found from Armenia and Syria to Central Asia. In Seitz it is described as follows: "This large fine Burnet has rosy-red wings, the forewing being divided into 3 areas by two black-grey bands; a broad collar and a rosy abdominal belt. Inhabits Anterior Asia, from Syria through Mesopotamia to Turkestan."
Zygaena manlia is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Armenia, Turkey and Iran.In Seitz it is described as - "Similar to Zygaena cuvieri and with an equally broad rosy red collar and abdominal belt, but the blackish bands separating the red areas of the forewing are much broader, the distal area being represented by an irregular half-divided patch. North Persia"
Zygaena huguenini is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in the Pamir mountains. In Seitz it is described - a large heavy-built Zygaena from the Pamir. Instead of the 3 pair of spots the forewing bears a large patch occupying the whole marginal area; the 1. and 2. pair of spots of the forewing are separated by a black transverse band, the spots of each pair however being united.
Zygaena cacuminum is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Iran.In Seitz it is described This species reminds one in pattern of the carniolica-group, the 6. spot of the forewing being parallel to the distal margin. But the colour of all the spots of the forewing as well as of the hindwing is a dull purple, as it hardly occurs again in the whole genus. From Iran.
Zygaena formosa is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Asia minor, Syria and Turkey.In Seitz it is described. — The colour of the wings of the much smaller [than the similar Zygaena olivieri group ] formosa H.-Sch. (7i), from Asia Minor and Syria, is far lighter pale rosy, the abdomen, however, being black except a narrow belt. — In malatiana Stgr. [now Zygaena formosa ssp. malatiana Rebel, 1901 ] (7h) this belt is broader, comprising the 2—3 penultimate segments; Malatia, east of the Antitaurus.
Zygaena zuleima is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in the Atlas Mountains.
Zygaena favonia is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in the Atlas mountains, .In Seitz it is described Z. favonia Frr. (4g). This form belongs to a group of North African Burnets the pattern of the forewings of which reminds one much of the preceding species [ Zygaena sarpedon, while the abdomen is red from the middle nearly to the tip, which gives the insect a characteristic aspect and renders it easy to recognize even when it flies quickly past. The whole of Mauretania, everywhere common — ab. vitrina Stgr. (4g) [ now Z. favonia ssp. valentini Bruand, 1846], which I found only at very limited localities, for instance near Constantine and at the cemetery-wall near Batna, is easily differentiated by the transparent wings. -ab. staudingeri Aust. (4f) [ now Z favonia Freyer, 1844] is similar, but has only a narrow abdominal belt, so that one might mistake the for a small loyselis, if it did not lack the red collar of the latter. — The insect described by Bruand as valentini [ now Z. favonia ssp. valentini Bruand, 1846], in which the red spots are enlarged, may possibly belong to an analogous favonia-form. — The finest form of this group is thevestis Stgr. [now Z. favonia ssp. thevestis Staudinger, 1887 (4f), in which there is a large lobate subapical patch. — All these varieties occur all over Mauretania, on hills, in dry beds of rivulets, and on waste ground. The commonest form is favonia, which is found in June on nearly all the thistles growing at the road-sides and in the fields. The females have an extraordinarily thick body, and apparently scarcely take to the wing before copulation.
Zygaena lydia is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Kurdistan and Kherson Oblast.
Zygaena separata is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Southern Fergana ( Uzbekistan). Zygaena separata was described as ab. separata Stgr. of fraxini. It differs in that the distal spots are narrowly but distinctly separated from one another.
In Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World)
