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Engkøllesværmer
(Zygaena trifolii)
Køllesværmere (Zygaenidae)
[butterfly]
25391
Five-spot Burnet (gb)
Käringstandbastardsvärmare (se)
Measurements:
WS:28-33mm
Generations:
1
Flight period:
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Identification:
Very similar to Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet, showing 5 red spots on the forewing. But it has shorter and more rounded wings than that, and the middle spots often melt together and the larger of the two being more rectangular.
Distribution:
N Africa through C Europe (to Denmark) and east toward Ukraine. In Scandinavia only in Jylland, Denmark.
Habitat:
Moist nutrition-rich meadows where host plant is present.
Behavior:
Status:
Apparently declining in Denmark, but to what degree is difficult to say because of the difficulties separating it from Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet.
Host plants:
Sump-Kællingetand (Lotus pedunculatus) [Marsh Bird's-foot Trefoil ~ Cuernecillo Grande ~ Stor Käringtand]
Feeding plants:
Blåhat (Knautia arvensis) [Field Scabious ~ Escabiosa ~ Åkervädd]
Sump-Kællingetand (Lotus pedunculatus) [Marsh Bird's-foot Trefoil ~ Cuernecillo Grande ~ Stor Käringtand]
Sump-Kællingetand (Lotus pedunculatus) [Marsh Bird's-foot Trefoil ~ Cuernecillo Grande ~ Stor Käringtand]
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