Zygaena minos (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Zygaenoidea → family Zygaenidae → subfamily Zygaeninae → genus Zygaena → subgenus Mesembrynus → species Zygaena minos
Species name(s)
Zygaena (Mesembrynus) minos (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Sphinx minos [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 = Zygaena pluto Ochsenheimer, 1808 = Zygaena smirnovi Christoph, 1884 = Zygaena (Mesembrynus) minos = Sphinx pythia.
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 1.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#1. Kaliningradsky; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.
Primary colors
Red, Green, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia?, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Central European, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Pimpinella saxifraga, Eryngium. [28].
Subspecies of Zygaena minos
- Zygaena minos alanyca G. & H. Reiss, 1972.
- Z. m. farsica Ebert, 1974.
- Z. m. minos.
- Z. m. normanna Verity, 1922.
- Z. m. persica Burgeff, 1926.
- Z. m. saccarello Balletto & Toso, 1978.
- Z. m. tatvanica G. & H. Reiss, 1973.
- Z. m. tatvanica Reiss & Reiss, 1973.
- Z. m. viridescens Burgeff, 1926.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Nadin Flegontova, Vitaly Gumenuk. Text data: Peter Khramov.
The species 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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