Zygaena loti (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Zygaenoidea → family Zygaenidae → subfamily Zygaeninae → genus Zygaena → subgenus Zygaena → species Zygaena loti
Species name(s)
Zygaena (Zygaena) loti (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Sphinx loti Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Zygaena fulvia Fabricius, [1777] = Sphinx amsteinii Scheven, 1782 = Sphinx bellis Borkhausen, 1789 = Sphinx serpylli Borkhausen, 1789 = Sphinx triptolemus Hübner, [1806] = Sphinx bellidis Hübner, [1806] = Lycastes anthyllidis Hübner, [1819] = Zygaena janthina Boisduval, [1828] = Zygaena bitorquata Ménétriés, 1832 = Zygaena laphria Freyer, [1851] = Zygaena wagneri Millière, 1885 = Zygaena (Zygaena) loti.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.
Primary colors
Red, Yellow, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1]. Peter Khramov.
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Sredneobskaya, South Ural. [3]. Peter Khramov.
- Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova Monaco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine,France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10]. Peter Khramov.
Larva food plants
- Coronilla, Hippocrepis, Lotus, Onobrychis. [28]. Peter Khramov.
Subspecies Zygaena loti
- Z. l. achilleae (Esper, 1780).
- Z. l. anatolica Burgeff, 1926.
- Z. l. balcanica Reiss, 1922.
- Z. l. georgiae Reiss, 1922.
- Z. l. loti.
- Z. l. macedonica Burgeff, 1926.
- Z. l. phoenicea Staudinger, 1887.
- Z. l. praeclara (Burgeff, 1926).
- Z. l. scotica Rowland-Brown, 1919.
- Z. l. zobeli Reiss, 1921.
- Z. l. zuleimanica Reiss, 1937.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Evgeny Komarov, Sergey Demyanenko. Text data: Peter Khramov.
Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.
Color 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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