Zygaena lonicerae (Scheven, 1777)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Zygaenoidea → family Zygaenidae → subfamily Zygaeninae → genus Zygaena → subgenus Zygaena → species Zygaena lonicerae

Species name(s)

Zygaena (Zygaena) lonicerae (Scheven, 1777) = Sphinx lonicerae Scheven, 1777 = Sphinx graminis de Villers, 1789 = Zygaena aspasia Meigen, 1829 = Zygaena (Zygaena) lonicerae = Anthrocera lonicerae = Zygaena diaphana Burgeff 1906 = Zygaena graminis Villers 1789 = Zygaena apicalielongata Vorbrodt 1914 = Zygaena apicalielongata Vorbrodt & Müller-Rutz 1917 = Zygaena apicalimaculata Vorbrodt 1913 = Zygaena aspasia Meigen 1830 = Zygaena bercei Sand 1879 = Zygaena burgeffi Przegendza 1926 = Zygaena carnea Spuler 1906 = Zygaena centripuncta Reiss 1964 = Zygaena chalybea Aurivillius 1888/89 = Zygaena citrina Speyer 1887 = Zygaena complexa Tutt 1906 = Zygaena complicata Tutt 1906 = Zygaena confluens Burgeff 1906 = Zygaena confluens Dziurzynski 1906 = Zygaena confusa Tutt 1906 = Zygaena hades Metschl 1925 = Zygaena herzi Slastshevsky 1911 = Zygaena inversa Tutt 1906 = Zygaena kratochvili Povolny & Gregor 1946 = Zygaena lutea Nickerl 1897 = Zygaena marginata Burgeff 1906 = Zygaena medioconfluens Reiss 1964 = Zygaena omniconfluens Vorbrodt 1913 = Zygaena parvimaculata Holik 1939 = Zygaena rubescens Burgeff 1906 = Zygaena secunda Tutt 1906 = Zygaena semicitrina Niepelt 1924 = Zygaena sexmaculata Dziurzynski 1910 = Zygaena sphingiformis Dabrwski 1965 = Zygaena translucens Burgeff 1926 = Zygaena ussuriensis Reiss 1929. [9, 10, 11, 187]

Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 12.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky.

Forewing length

14—16 mm.

Primary colors

Red, Green, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Anthrocera lonicerae [11].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia , Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily, 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, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Mid-Volzhsky , Average Urals, Sredneobskaya,Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing quite a reach of up to 1.6 cm, which makes it a little more than a butterfly looks like herZygaena trifolii. Red spots on the front wing - 5, of which 2 medium always separated, and both exterior may merge. [5].
Unlike Z. trifolii, antennae are long, gradual and long thick, wings are long, with elongated ends of the front wing spots are well separated. The wingspan of 35 to 42 mm. [11].

General info about Imago

Zhimolostevaya zygaenidae inhabits dry meadows, sunny slopes and clearings, other similar areas of terrain. [5].

Imago lifespan

From July to August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Trifolium, Lathyrus, Lotus, Onobrychis, Vicia. [28].
Lyadvenets clover. [5].

Larva lifespan

September-June. [5].

Overwintering stage

Obviously, the caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Zygaena lonicerae

Zygaena lonicerae abbastumana Reiss, 1922. [9]
Z. l. abchasica Holik & Sheljuzhko, 1958. [187]
Z. l. achalcea Burgeff, 1926. [187]
Z. l. alpiumgigas Verity, 1925. [9]
Z. l. alpiumgigas (Verity, 1925). [10]
Z. l. apenninica Rocci, 1921. [187]
Z. l. astilbonta Dujardin, 1965. [187]
Z. l. centricaucasica Holik, 1939. [187]
Z. l. deludens Koch, 1944. [187]
Z. l. divulgata Rocci, 1941. [187]
Z. l. etruriae Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. glaciei Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. glacieimagismaculata Verity, 1930. [187]
Z. l. herthae Stauder, 1920. [187]
Z. l. insularis Tremewan, 1960. [187]
Z. l. insularis (Tremewan, 1960). [10]
Z. l. intermixta Verity, 1925. [187]
Z. l. intermixta (Verity, 1925). [10]
Z. l. jocelynae Tremewan, 1962. [187]
Z. l. jocelynae (Tremewan, 1962). [10]
Z. l. kalkanensis Reiss, 1932. [9]
Z. l. kareliae Burgeff, 1926. [187]
Z. l. kindermanni Oberthür, 1910. [187]
Z. l. kubanensis Holik & Sheljuzhko, 1958. [187]
Z. l. latomarginata Tutt, 1899. [187]
Z. l. latomarginata (Tutt, 1899). [10]
Z. l. leonensis Tremewan, 1961. [187]
Z. l. leonensis (Tremewan, 1961). [10]
Z. l. linnei Reiss, 1922. [9]
Z. l. linnei (Reiss, 1922). [10]
Z. l. lonicerae. [9]
Z. l. lonicerae (Scheven, 1777). [10]
Z. l. magismaculata Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. martinensis Reiss, 1929. [187]
Z. l. microdoxa Dujardin, 1965. [187]
Z. l. microdoxa (Dujardin, 1965). [10]
Z. l. minuens Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. nachitshevanica Holik, 1937. [187]
Z. l. natolica Reiss, 1929. [9]
Z. l. nobilis Navàs, 1924. [9]
Z. l. oenoda Dujardin, 1965. [187]
Z. l. pauper Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. pauperetincta Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. praeacuta Burgeff, 1926. [187]
Z. l. rechei Dujardin, 1965. [187]
Z. l. sarykamyshensis Holik & Sheljuzhko, 1958. [187]
Z. l. silana Burgeff, 1914. [187]
Z. l. silana (Burgeff, 1914). [10]
Z. l. stettinensis Reiss, 1922. [187]
Z. l. stoechadimima Dujardin, 1965. [187]
Z. l. tannuensis Vidalepp, 1979. [187]
Z. l. thurneri Holik, 1943. [187]
Z. l. thurneri (Holik, 1943). [10]
Z. l. transferens Verity, 1926. [187]
Z. l. ukraina Przegendza, 1932. [187]
Z. l. uzjana Holik, 1939. [187]
Z. l. vivax Verity, 1920. [187]
Z. l. vivax (Verity, 1920). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Smirnova, Vlad Proklov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[11] Жизнь животных по А. Э. Брему. Т.2: Членистоногие. М.: Учпедгиз РСФСР, 1941
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org