Slender Scotch burnet

Zygaena loti
Burnet moths (Zygaenidae)

♀, The front wing is yellowish.
Slender Scotch burneton RikenMon's Nature-Guide

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Slim butterfly with grey-brown front wings containing 5 to 6 red markings. The front markings often touch each other. The rear wings are red with a thin black edge. The black body has thin white lines. The head and antennae are black, the legs are black with white. The neck has a specific white line.
The caterpillar is green with yellow and black dots at its side, sometimes a dark back and a hairy body.

Prefers poor pastures in mountainous areas, like the Alps.

⇔ wsp. 27-33 mm

LA:
≈ The wings of the ZYGAENA EPHIALTES (Variable burnet moth), ZYGAENA FILIPENDULAE (Six-spot burnet) and ZYGAENA TRIFOLII (Five-spot burnet} are deeper black with better-separated markings.

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