Zygaena loyselis

Zygaena loyselis is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family.[2] It is found in the Atlas Mountains (in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia).

Zygaena loyselis
In Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Zygaenidae
Genus: Zygaena
Species:
Z. loyselis
Binomial name
Zygaena loyselis

In Seitz (1913):[3]

Z. loyselis Oberth. (4f g) has always a rosy red collar, and a narrow but bright rosy red abdominal belt; otherwise resembling favonia, but most specimens considerably larger. Normally the red basal area of loyselis separated into 2—3 longitudinal spots, and the apical patch into 2 red rounded spots. If the spots are more or less confluent, we haveab. confluens Dziurz.

  • In Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World)

References
  1. Oberthür, C. (1876) Études d'entomologie. Faunes entomologiques descriptions d'insectes nouveaux ou peu connus. 1. Étude sur la faune des lépidoptères de l'Algérie. 1-74 + pl. I-IV. Rennes (Oberthür & Fils).
  2. A. Hofmann andW. G. Tremewan 2010 A revised check-list of the genus Zygaena Fabricius, 1775 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae, Zygaeninae), based on the biospecies conceptEntomologist’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.


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