Manulea pygmaeola

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)
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; ;

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)

References

^ 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.

External links

Kimber, Ian. "72.048 BF2046 Pigmy Footman Eilema pygmaeola (Doubleday, 1847)". UKMoths. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
Eilema pygmaeola on Fauna Europaea
Eilema pygmaeola on Lepiforum e.V.

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[dub-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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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