List of moths of Great Britain (Zygaenidae)

The family Zygaenidae comprises the "forester and burnet moths", of which ten species occur in Great Britain:

Subfamily Procridinae

• Adscita statices, forester — south & centre (local) ‡
• Adscita geryon, cistus forester — south & centre (Nationally Scarce B)
• Jordanita globulariae, scarce forester — south (Nationally Scarce A)

Subfamily Zygaeninae

• Zygaena exulans, Scotch (or mountain) burnet

• Zygaena exulans subochracea — eastern Cairngorms (Red Data Book)

• Zygaena loti, slender Scotch burnet ‡

• Zygaena loti scotica — islands of Mull & Ulva (Red Data Book)

• Zygaena viciae, New Forest burnet ‡

• Zygaena viciae argyllensis — western
  Argyllshire
  (Red Data Book)
• Zygaena viciae ytenensis — New Forest (extinct)

• Zygaena filipendulae
  , six-spot burnet

• Zygaena filipendulae stephensi — throughout

• Zygaena trifolii, five-spot burnet

• Zygaena trifolii decreta — south & west-central (local)
• Zygaena trifolii palustrella — south & east (local)

• Zygaena lonicerae, narrow-bordered five-spot burnet

• Zygaena lonicerae latomarginata — England, Wales
• Zygaena lonicerae jocelynae — island of
  Skye
  (Red Data Book)

• Zygaena purpuralis, transparent burnet

• Zygaena purpuralis segontii —
  Lleyn Peninsula
  (Red Data Book, presumed extinct)
• Zygaena purpuralis caledonensis — Hebrides (Nationally Scarce A)

Species listed in the 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)^[1] are indicated by a double-dagger symbol (‡).

See also

• List of moths of Great Britain (overview)
  • Family lists:
    Micromoths

References

• Waring, Paul, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing, Hook, UK.
  ISBN 0-9531399-1-3
  .