Zygaena is a genus of moths in the family Zygaenidae. These brightly coloured, day-flying moths are native to the West Palearctic. Adalbert Seitz described...
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Smooth hammerhead (redirect from Sphyrna zygaena)
The smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. This species is named "smooth hammerhead"...
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Zygaena is a genus of moths in the family Zygaenidae. Zygaena may also refer to: Sphyrna zygaena, the smooth hammerhead shark Zygaena dissimilis and Zygaena...
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Great hammerhead (redirect from Zygaena dissimilis)
Nature (IUCN) as of 2019. The great hammerhead was first described as Zygaena mokarran in 1837 by German naturalist Eduard Rüppell. The species name...
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statices) Scotch burnet (Zygaena exulans) Slender Scotch burnet (Zygaena loti) New Forest burnet (Zygaena viciae) Six-spot burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) Five-spot...
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known by synonyms such as Zygaena, Cestracion, and Sphyrichthys. The earliest species described of this genus was Sphyrna zygaena by Carl Linnaeus in 1758...
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Winghead shark (redirect from Zygaena blochii)
Squalus zygaena (a synonym of Sphyrna zygaena, the smooth hammerhead). French zoologist Georges Cuvier, as a brief footnote to the account of S. zygaena in...
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Subspecies include: Zygaena carniolica carniolica Zygaena carniolica albarracina Staudinger, 1887 Zygaena carniolica amanda Reiss, 1921 Zygaena carniolica amistosa...
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Zygaena loti, the slender Scotch burnet, is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is a diurnal moth characterized by a black body, light colored legs, and...
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Zygaena cambysea is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in the Middle East, including Iran. It is rosy-red like cuvieri, but differs in the body...
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Zygaena fausta is a member of the family Zygaenidae, the day-flying burnet moths. Its bright aposematic colours of red, white and black on the wings indicate...
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Zygaena cocandica is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In Seitz it is described as "A very remarkable...
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Six-spot burnet (redirect from Zygaena filipendulae)
The six-spot burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) is a day-flying moth of the family Zygaenidae. Z. f. altapyrenaica Le Charles, 1950 Z. f. arctica Schneider...
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Zygaena marcuna is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. It is dull red or dark pink. The black dot...
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Zygaena niphona is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in the east Palearctic (Amur Oblast, Korea, Japan). In Seitz it is described...
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Zygaena lavandulae is a species of moth in the family Zygaenidae. Subspecies include: Zygaena lavandulae lavandulae Zygaena lavandulae alfacarica Tremewan...
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Amata passalis (redirect from Zygaena cerbera)
Binomial name Amata passalis (Fabricius, 1781) Synonyms Zygaena passalis Fabricius, 1781 Zygaena cerbera Sulzer, 1776 Sphinx creusa Cramer, 1779 Syntomis...
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Zygaena sogdiana is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Central Asia. Erschoff, N. G. 1874 in Fedschenko, Travels in Turkestan...
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Zygaena rhadamanthus is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. The larvae feed on Onobrychis, Dorycnium...
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Zygaena formosa is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Asia minor, Syria and Turkey.In Seitz it is described. — The colour of the...
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Zygaena truchmena is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Central Asia. According to Seitz - the prettiest and most variegated form...
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Zygaena huguenini is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in the Pamir mountains. In Seitz it is described - a large heavy-built Zygaena...
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Zygaena cuvieri is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family found from Armenia and Syria to Central Asia. In Seitz it is described as follows: "This...
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Zygaena sedi is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. In Seitz it is described - Z...
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(European Alps) Zygaena exulans abruzzina Burgeff, 1926 Zygaena exulans apfelbecki Rebel, 1910 Zygaena exulans pyrenaica Burgeff, 1926 Zygaena exulans subochracea...
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July. Zygaena viciae viciae Zygaena viciae argyllensis Tremewan, 1967 Zygaena viciae bosniensis Reiss, 1922 Zygaena viciae charon Hübner, 1796 Zygaena viciae...
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Zygaena orana orana Zygaena orana contristans Oberthür, 1922 Zygaena orana oberthueri Bethune-Baker, 1888 Zygaena orana sardoa Mabille 1892 Zygaena orana...
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Zygaena separata is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Southern Fergana ( Uzbekistan). Zygaena separata was described as ab. separata...
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Scalloped hammerhead (redirect from Zygaena lewini)
hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae. It was originally known as Zygaena lewini. The Greek word sphyrna translates into "hammer" in English, referring...
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Zygaena dorycnii is a species of moth in the family Zygaenidae. It is found in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Armenia. It has spots and a red belt, which...
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