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Zygaena trifolii

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Wikipedia Abstract

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, the central Alps and Italy. 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 and Lotus corniculatus. The species overwinters in the larval stage and may overwinter twice.
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Infraspecies

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe Vetch)[1]
Lotus corniculatus (birdfoot deervetch)[1]
Lotus pedunculatus (big trefoil)[1]
Trifolium campestre (Large Hop Clover)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Arnica montana (leopard's bane)[2]
Calluna vulgaris (heather)[2]
Knautia arvensis (field scabiosa)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0