''Zygaena trifolii'', the five-spot burnet, is a
moth in the family
Zygaenidae. It is found from
North Africa, through the western
Mediterranean,
Great Britain and central Europe to
Ukraine. It is not found in
Scandinavia.
Fauna Europaea
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The wingspan is 28–33 mm. Adults are on wing from the mid-June to the beginning of August in one generation per year.
The larvae feed on the leaves of ''Lotus uliginosus
''Lotus pedunculatus'' (formerly ''Lotus uliginosus''), the big trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil or marsh bird's-foot trefoil, is a member of the pea family (Fabaceae).
It is a herbaceous perennial growing throughout Europe in damp, open loc ...
'' and '' Lotus corniculatus''. The species overwinters in the larval stage and may overwinter twice.
Subspecies
*''Zygaena trifolii trifolii''
*''Zygaena trifolii barcelonensis'' Reiss, 1922
*''Zygaena trifolii caerulescens'' Oberthur, 1910
*''Zygaena trifolii decreta'' Verity, 1925
*''Zygaena trifolii duponcheliana'' Oberthur, 1910
*''Zygaena trifolii espunnica'' Reiss, 1936
*''Zygaena trifolii hibera'' Verity, 1925
*''Zygaena trifolii lusitaniaemixta'' Verity, 1930
*''Zygaena trifolii olbiana'' Oberthur, 1910
*''Zygaena trifolii palustrella'' Verity, 1925
*''Zygaena trifolii palustris'' Oberthur, 1896
*''Zygaena trifolii pusilla'' Oberthur, 1910
*''Zygaena trifolii subsyracusia'' Verity, 1925
*''Zygaena trifolii syracusia'' Zeller, 1847 (the Channel Islands and the coastal regions of north-western France from Loire-Atlantique to Côtes-d’Armor and Ille-et-Vilaine)
References
External links
Five-spot burnet on UKmoths (Ian Kimber: Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland)
* ttp://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Zygaena_Trifolii Lepiforum.de
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Zygaena
Moths of Europe
Moths of Africa
Moths described in 1783
Taxa named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper
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