Zygaena laeta (Hubner, 1790)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Zygaenoidea → family Zygaenidae → subfamily Zygaeninae → genus Zygaena → subgenus Mesembrynus → species Zygaena laeta
Species name(s)
Zygaena (Mesembrynus) laeta (Hubner, 1790) = Sphinx laeta Hübner, 1790 = Zygaena (Mesembrynus) laeta = Zygaena eos Sterzl 1924 = Zygaena pseudocuvieri Silbernagel 1937 = Zygaena reversa Burgeff 1914.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [1]. Peter Khramov.
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Southern Urals. [3]. Peter Khramov.
- Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, North Aegean, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Croatia ?, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [10]. Peter Khramov.
Larva food plants
- Eryngium. [28]. Peter Khramov.
Subspecies Zygaena laeta
- Z. l. akschehirensis Reiss, 1929.
- Z. l. danieli Reiss, 1935.
- Z. l. occidentissima Holik, 1935.
- Z. l. oksherirensis Reiss.
- Z. l. orientis Burgeff, 1926.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Juri Palamarchuk. Text data: Peter Khramov.
Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.
References
- [1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
- [3] Ефетов К. А. Zygaenidae. — Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
- [10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
- [28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
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