Pyropteron leucomelaena

Pyropteron leucomelaena is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is found in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine.[2] It is also found in North Africa and from Asia Minor to Armenia.

Pyropteron leucomelaena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Pyropteron
Subgenus: Synansphecia
Species:
P. leucomelaena
Binomial name
Pyropteron leucomelaena
(Zeller, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
  • Sesia leucomelaena Zeller, 1847
  • Synansphecia leucomelaena
  • Sesia therevaeformis Lederer, 1853
  • Sesia cretica Rebel, 1916
  • Chamaesphecia leucomelaena f. cyrnea Le Cerf, 1920

The larvae feed on Sanguisorba minor.[3]

References
  1. Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Synansphecia at funet


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