Zygaena zuleima

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Zygaena zuleima
In Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Zygaenidae
Genus: Zygaena
Species:
Z. zuleima
Binomial name
Zygaena zuleima
Pierret, 1837[1]

Zygaena zuleima is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family.[2] It is found in the Atlas Mountains (in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia).

In Seitz (1913):[3]

Z. zuleima Pier. (=ludicra Luc) (4d). A small, delicate insect with an almost naked body. The wedge-spots are narrow, being separated by broad black interspaces; the external streak angulate, hooklike, being extended close to distal margin. — In Algiers, on meadows, in spring till early .May not rarely on Umbelliferae, for instance near Oran, on the parade-grounds of Constantine, etc.

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