Adscita geryon
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Zygaenidae |
| Genus: | Adscita |
| Species: | A. geryon
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| Binomial name | |
| Adscita geryon | |
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Adscita geryon, the cistus forester, is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in southern and central Europe, east to Turkey. It is also present in Great Britain.[2] It was first described by the German entomologist Jacob Hübner in 1813.
The wingspan is 20–25 mm.[3][4] The larvae can be found from July to May of the following year.
Subspecies
[edit]- Adscita geryon geryon (from the Iberian Peninsula and Britain to European Russia, the Crimea and Turkey)
- Adscita geryon acutafibra Verity, 1946
- Adscita geryon orientalis (Alberti, 1938)
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Specimen -
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Adscita geryon mating (video, 1m 55s)
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Figs. 3, 3a larvae after last moult
Adscita from adscitus, meaning adopted or enrolled was originally a Carl Linnaeus name. Linnaeus divided the hawk-moths into four groups, three of which he called the true hawk-moths and the fourth, ″a group of seven hangers-on, in default of a better position″. In 1783 Retzius was the first to use Adscita as a genus and he kept two of these moths in the Adscita, i.e. statices and filipendulae (the six-spot burnet, which was later assigned to Zygaena). Hubner gave the moth the specific name geryon, which refers to Geryon a mythical three-headed monster killed by Heracles.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Nachtfalter, Spinner und Schwärmer, S. 476ff, Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1
- ^ Kimber, Ian. "54.003 BF164 Cistus Forester Adscita geryon". UKmoths. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ Ellis, W N. "Adscita geryon (Hübner, 1813)". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ Emmet, A Maitland (1991). The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their history and meaning. Colchester: Harley Books. pp. 51–2. ISBN 0-946589-35-6.
Bibliography
[edit]- Šašić, Martina; Nahirnić, Ana; Tarmann, Gerhard M. (2016-12-31). "Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) in the Lepidoptera collections of the Croatian Natural History Museum". Natura Croatica: Periodicum Musei Historiae Naturalis Croatici. 25 (2): 233–248. doi:10.20302/NC.2016.25.19. eISSN 1848-7386.
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