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Species of moth
Pigmy footman
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Superfamily:
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Noctuoidea
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Family:
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Erebidae
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Subfamily:
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Arctiinae
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Genus:
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Manulea
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Species:
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M. pygmaeola
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Binomial name
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Manulea pygmaeola
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Synonyms
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- 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
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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.
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)
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