Manulea pygmaeola

Pigmy footman
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Genus:	Manulea
Species:	M. pygmaeola
Binomial name
Manulea pygmaeola (Doubleday, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
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 Arctiidae family. It is found in the western half of the Palearctic ecozone, east to Altai.

The wingspan is 24–28 mm. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from June to August.

The larvae feed on various lichen species on rocks and wooden poles. Larvae are found from August to June. The species overwinters in the larval stage.

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

1. Dubatolov, V. V. & V. V. Zolotuhin. (2011). Does Eilema Hübner, (1819) (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) present one or several genera? Euroasian Entomological Journal 10(3) 367-79, 380, col. plate VII.

External links

• UKmoths
• Lepidoptera of Belgium