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bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Burnet or Widderchen
Zygaena purpuralis/minos


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3 Comments

MariaPomsaharova
MariaPomsaharova 11 years ago

natrafila si na pekneho nocneho motyla :) zavidim ;)

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

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bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

There are 2 species which you can't separate unless you make a genital dissection, meaning killing the insect, or DNA-tracing. So these 2 species where included in the so called: Zygaena purpuralis/minos complex. Depending on the location you have from one more than from the other or even one is missing (Minos is missing in the whole Central Europe Alpine region and mostly missing in Italy). If you have a lot of Thymian in your area it might be Purpuralis, but would be a pragmatic ID not actually serious.
http://schmetterling-raupe.de/art/purpur...
http://www.tagschmetterlinge.de/html/tag...
http://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki...
http://www.lepidoptera.pl/show.php?ID=22...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymian-Wid...

Slovakia

Spotted on Jul 1, 2012
Submitted on Jul 29, 2012

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