''Zygaena lydia '' is a species 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 ...

in the

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 ...

family. It is found in

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and

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. In Seitz (1913): Seitz, A., 1913, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 22.,The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Fauna 2. Volume: The Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges
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''Z. lydia'' Stgr. (7 a) reminds one in pattern already of the following species, achilleae''">Zygaena_loti.html" ;"title="'Zygaena loti">achilleae'' but the wings are densely scaled and the dark ground-colour of the forewing has a strong metallic gloss ; the intensely deep red collar is a further characteristic. From Tauria and Kurdistan. — The very similar ''
cremonae'' Stgr. (7 a), from the Libanon, has in addition to the red collar a red abdominal belt, the distal patch of the forewing being occasionally somewhat constricted in the centre. In ''lydia'' as well as ''cremonae'' the very bright scarlet spots of the forewing are united in pairs.

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Zygaena">lydia Lydia (Lydian language, Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the mod ...