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 laeta, the bloodword burnet, is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.
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 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 magiana is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Central Asia.
Zygaena rosinae is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Armenia. Z. rosinae Korb (7f), from Armenia, resembles scovitzii but the palpi and nearly the whole abdomen, especially in the female are bright red.
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 family Zygaenidae. 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 haberhaueri is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Armenia and Georgia In Seitz it is described With red collar, but without red belt. On forewing obliquely from costa to anal angle an evenly wide greyish black band separating a triangular marginal patch from the red area of the wing, this area moreover being costally incised at the basal third or divided by a slight band. In Armenia, apparently in localities where for a long while past no collections have been made.
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 aurata is a species of moth in the family Zygaenidae. It is found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In Seitz it is described Z. aurata as a form of favonia with glossy brass-yellow ground-colour: discovered in Julv in the Moroccan Atlas.
Zygaena escalerai is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Iran. In Seitz it is described - Z. escalerai Pouj. has orange spots on forewing, the external pairs being confluent; spot 6 is elongate and transverse. The hindwing is orange, with a vermilion tint, the disc being hyaline and the apex black, there being a black dot situated at centre of distal margin. The species has been discovered in Persia, the type contained in the Paris Museum being caught by Escalera [Manuel Martínez de la Escalera] in July. According to the description this form is allied to the fraxini-truchmena group.
Zygaena niphona is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in the east Palearctic. In Seitz it is described Z. niphona Btlr. (6e). The only Burnet from East Asia. Rather large, sparsely scaled, 5 spotted, with rather wide red abdominal belt. Club of antenna strongly incrassate at apex. The insect has the appearance of a large meliloti, but the body is strong and robust, the flight however being nevertheless not at all fast. Though the species varies considerably, some specimens being 6 spotted and resembling therefore Z. peucedani, there are no local races. The abdominal belt occupies mostly 2 segments, but is sometimes restricted to one segment, the posterior portion of the abdomen being occasionally all red. The species is widely distributed in Japan, especially at low altitudes of the central mountains, near and on the Fujisan; probably more sporadic in Amurland, since Graeser did not meet with it.
Zygaena mana is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Adshara Gebiet, Georgia, "Transkaukasien" and Armenia. It is similar to Zygaena brizae but differs in that the hindwing is more broadly edged with black.
