Zygaena tamara

Zygaena tamara is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Armenia and Turkey.[1]

Zygaena tamara
Zygaena tamara in Seitz b
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Zygaenidae
Genus: Zygaena
Species:
Z. tamara
Binomial name
Zygaena tamara
Christoph, 1889

Description

In Seitz it is described - Z. tamara Christ. (7b) . One of the finest Zygaenae. All the wings bright yellow, with a delicate rosy tint, the distal margin being black; forewing divided by 2 black transverse bands into 3 areas of nearly equal size. Antenna exceedingly long and strong, the abdomen being broadly belted with red. — ab. rubra Bang-Haas i. l. (7b) the hindwing is rosy red instead of yellow, while in the form daemon Christ. (7 b) the fore- and hindwing are red. All 3 forms occur together in Armenia, but are found only in limited districts.[2][3]

Biology

The larval foodplants are Eryngium billardieri , Eryngium giganteum, Prangos sp. and Ferula haussknechtii[4]

Subspecies
  • Z. t. tamara
  • Z. t. mahabadica Reiss, 1978
  • Z. t. kerendica Reiss, 1978
  • Z. t. bijarica (Reiss, 1978)

References
  1. Efetov K. A., 2005 The Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea and other regions of Eurasia. – Simferopol: CSMU Press, 2005. – 420 pp.
  2. A. Hofmann and W. G. Tremewan 2010 A revised check-list of the genus Zygaena Fabricius, 1775 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae, Zygaeninae), based on the biospecies concept Entomologist’s Gazette 61: 119–131 pdf
  3. 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.
  4. Özkol, H., Kayci L. and Pinar S., 2009 Notes on the biology of Zygaena (Mesembrynus) tamara placida A.Bang-Haas, 1913 (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae). Cesa News Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara pdf
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