Zygaena loyselis is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family.[2] It is found in the Atlas Mountains (in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia).
Zygaena loyselis | |
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In Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Zygaenidae |
Genus: | Zygaena |
Species: | Z. loyselis
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Binomial name | |
Zygaena loyselis |
In Seitz (1913):[3]
Z. loyselis Oberth. (4f g) has always a rosy red collar, and a narrow but bright rosy red abdominal belt; otherwise resembling favonia, but most specimens considerably larger. Normally the red basal area of loyselis separated into 2—3 longitudinal spots, and the apical patch into 2 red rounded spots. If the spots are more or less confluent, we haveab. confluens Dziurz.
References
edit- ^ Oberthür, C. (1876) Études d'entomologie. Faunes entomologiques descriptions d'insectes nouveaux ou peu connus. 1. Étude sur la faune des lépidoptères de l'Algérie. 1-74 + pl. I-IV. Rennes (Oberthür & Fils).
- ^ A. Hofmann and W. G. Tremewan 2010 A revised check-list of the genus Zygaena Fabricius, 1775 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae, Zygaeninae), based on the biospecies conceptEntomologist’s Gazette 61: 119–131 pdf
- ^ Seitz, A., 1913, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 22., The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Fauna 2. Volume: The Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges. pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.