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Zygaena purpuralis

  • 1. Corresponding author) Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, Turin University, Via Accademia Albertina 13 10123, Turin (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, Turin University, Via Accademia Albertina 13 10123, Turin (Italy)

Description

Zygaena purpuralis (Brünnich, 1763)

Sphinx purpuralis Brünnich, 1763: 686.

FIRST RECORD FOR THE VALDIERI AREA. — Turati & Verity (1912).

CHOROTYPE. — Centralasiatic-European.

ECOLOGY. — Natural and semi-natural open herbaceous areas. Altitudinal generalist, from coastal region to alpine meadows (0-2000 m); very common (Naumann et al. 1999). Known lhp are Thymus vulgaris, T. serpyllum, Satureja.

Notes

Published as part of Bonelli, Simona, Barbero, Francesca, Casacci, Luca Pietro, Cerrato, Cristiana & Balletto, Emilio, 2015, The butterfly fauna of the Italian Maritime Alps: results of the EDIT project, pp. 139-167 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5154896

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References

  • BRUNNICH M. T. 1763. - Catalogus af Danske Insekter, in PON- TOPPIDAN E. [H. H.], Den Danske Atlas. Kongelia Universitets, Kisbenhavn: 660 - 700; 1: 1 - 6, I-XL, 2: 1 - 725, 30 pls, 1 map.
  • TURATI E. & VERITY R. 1912. - Faunula Valderiensis nell'Alta Valle del Gesso (Alpi Marittime). Heterocera. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana 43 (1911): 168 - 233.
  • NAUMANN C. M., TARMANN G. M. & TREMEWAN W. G. 1999. - The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera). Apollo Books, Stenstrup: 304.