Zygaeninae

Subfamily of moths

Zygaeninae

Zygaena ephialtes
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Zygaenidae
Subfamily:  | Zygaeninae
Latreille, 1809

The Zygaeninae are a subfamily of the Zygaenidae family of moths. These are day-flying moths. Species of the genus Zygaena are native to the West Palearctic, while the genus Reissita is found on the Arabian Peninsula. They are able to biosynthesise hydrogen cyanide, and their bright patterns are warning colours to potential predators.

## Genera[edit]

* Neurosymploca Wallengren, 1858
* Praezygaena Alberti, 1954
* Reissita Tremewan, 1959
* Zutulba Kirby, 1892
* Zygaena Fabricius, 1775

## External links[edit]

* Data related to Zygaeninae at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q929897
* Wikispecies: Zygaeninae
* BioLib: 48339
* CoL: 93N38
* Fauna Europaea: 440215
* Fauna Europaea (new): 64733d2c-c2ac-4237-a65c-8edacd2e72b8
* Fossilworks: 213007
* iNaturalist: 124753
* NBN: NHMSYS0000504738
* NCBI: 287187

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