Zygaena magiana is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Central Asia.[1][2]

Zygaena magiana
Zygaena magiana and hissariensisin Seitz b
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Zygaenidae
Genus: Zygaena
Species:
Z. magiana
Binomial name
Zygaena magiana

Z.magiana (7b) is a pale-coloured, somewhat transparent, Burnet from the mountains near Samarkand, about the habits of which little definite is known. — The ab. hissariensis Gr.-Grsh [ now Zygaena magiana ssp. hissariensis Grum-Grshimailo, 1890] , which is connected with the preceding by all intergradations and which occurs in the same country, has the spots of the forewing small and sharply defined; the 6 transverse spot and the vestiges of the abdominal belt which appear occasionally are without weight in distinguishing this form ; from Virgil Gazi, end of July. — In the likewise Central Asiatic kohistana Gr.-Grsh.now ''Z. m.'' ssp. ''kohistana'' Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 on the contrary there are only vestiges of a red collar and abdominal belt.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Keil T Widderchen Mittelasiens (Biologie und Verbreitung) Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae, Zygaeninae. 19. Beiheft der Entomologischen Nachrichten und Berichte 1–84 [1] pdf]
  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