Manulea pygmaeola

Manulea pygmaeola, the pigmy footman, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the western half of the Palearctic realm, east to Altai.

Pigmy footman
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Manulea
Species:
M. pygmaeola
Binomial name
Manulea pygmaeola
(Doubleday, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
List
    • Lithosia pygmaeola Doubleday, 1847
    • Eilema pygmaeolum
    • Eilema pygmaeola
    • Lithosia pallifrons Zeller, 1847
    • Lithosia marcida Mann, 1859
    • Lithosia pallifrons saerdabensis Daniel, 1939
    • Lithosia pallifrons peluri Daniel, 1939
    • Lithosia pallifrons ab. grisea Fuchs, 1903
    • Eilema naneola Ragusa, 1889
    • Lithosia pygmaeola f. obscura Lempke, 1961
    • Lithosia pallifrons f. sericeola Kanerva, 1935

The wingspan is 24–28 mm. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from June to August.

Subspecies
  • Manulea pygmaeola pygmaeola
  • Manulea pygmaeola banghaasi (Seitz, 1910) (Asia Minor, Transcaucasia)
  • Manulea pygmaeola pallifrons (Zeller, 1847) (north-western Africa, Europe, Crimea, Caucasus)
  • Manulea pygmaeola saerdabense (Daniel, 1939) (western Kopet Dagh, northern Iran, Mountains of eastern Central Asia)

References
  1. Dubatolov, V. V. & Zolotuhin, V. V. (2011). "Does Eilema Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) present one or several genera?" (PDF). Euroasian Entomological Journal. 10 (3): 367–379, 380, VII.


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