''Jordanita'' is a
genus
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of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s of the family
Zygaenidae
The Zygaenidae moths are a family of Lepidoptera. The majority of zygaenids are tropical, but they are nevertheless quite well represented in temperate regions. Some of the 1000 or so species are commonly known as burnet or forester moths, ofte ...
.
Selected species
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Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Roccia''
Alberti, 1954
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Jordanita budensis
''Jordanita budensis'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in Disjunct distribution, disjunct populations in central Spain, southern France, Italy, eastern Austria, Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Greece, Ukraine, the Crimea, the Europ ...
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(Speyer & Speyer, 1858)
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Jordanita paupera
''Jordanita paupera'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is known from Turkey, Transcaucasia, Jordan, northern Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In the east, it ranges up to the Amur and Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) i ...
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(Christoph, 1887)
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Jordanita volgensis
''Jordanita volgensis'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is known from eastern Ukraine, southern Russia, Transcaucasia, Turkey and Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian ...
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(Möschler, 1862)
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Jordanita kurdica''
(Tarmann, 1987)
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Jordanita hector''
(Jordan, 1907)
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Jordanita notata
''Jordanita notata'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula and central Europe, through the northern part of the Mediterranean region (including Sicily and Crete) to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
The length ...
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(Zeller, 1847)
* Subgenus ''Gregorita''
Povolný & Šmelhaus, 1951
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Jordanita hispanica
''Jordanita hispanica'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in Spain, Portugal and southern France.
The length of the forewings is 9.1–14.2 mm for males and 6.4–9 mm for females. Individuals from Spain are bigger than t ...
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(Alberti, 1937)
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Jordanita algirica''
(Tarmann, 1985)
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Jordanita minutissima''
(Oberthür, 1916)
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Jordanita carolae''
(Dujardin, 1973)
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Jordanita rungsi''
(Dujardin, 1973)
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Jordanita cognata''
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1852)
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Jordanita benderi''
(Rothschild, 1917)
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Jordanita maroccana''
(Naufock, 1937)
* Subgenus ''Lucasiterna''
Alberti, 1961
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Jordanita cirtana
''Jordanita cirtana'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1849. It is found in northern Algeria and Tunisia
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(Lucas, 1849)
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Jordanita subsolana''
(Staudinger, 1862)
* Subgenus ''Rjabovia''
Efetov & Tarmann, 1995
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Jordanita horni''
(Alberti, 1937)
* Subgenus ''Jordanita''
Verity, 1946
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Jordanita syriaca''
(Alberti, 1937)
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Jordanita graeca
''Jordanita graeca'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found from southern Slovakia through Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Rhodes and Cyprus to southern Russia, Ukraine, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Iran and northern Iraq.
The length of the fo ...
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(Jordan, 1907)
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Jordanita chloros __NOTOC__
''Jordanita chloros'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.
Distribution
It is found from southern France, Italy and south-eastern Switzerland through southern, central and eastern Europe to the Caucasus, Turkey, northern Syria and north ...
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(Hübner, 1813)
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Jordanita chloronota''
(Staudinger, 1871)
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Jordanita globulariae
''Jordanita globulariae'', also known as the scarce forester, is a day-flying moth of the family Zygaenidae.
Distribution
It is found from the western part of the Iberian Peninsula through western, central and eastern Europe to the Ural. In the ...
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(Hübner, 1793)
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Jordanita tenuicornis
''Jordanita tenuicornis'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.
Distribution
It is found in southern and central Italy and Sicily.
Description
The length of the forewings is 10–12.8 mm for males and 8–10.8 mm for females.
Biology
T ...
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(Zeller, 1847)
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Jordanita fazekasi''
Efetov, 1998
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Jordanita vartianae
''Jordanita vartianae'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is endemic to southern and central Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
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Malicky, 1961
* Subgenus ''Praviela''
Alberti, 1954
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Jordanita anatolica
''Jordanita anatolica'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in Nakhchivan, southern Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and north-eastern Libya. In the east, the range extends to Iraq and Iran
Iran, of ...
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(Naufock, 1929)
Also See
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List of moths of Great Britain (Zygaenidae)
References
''Jordanita'' at funet.fi
Procridinae
Zygaenidae genera
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