''Manulea pygmaeola'', the pigmy footman, is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

. It is found in the western half of the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The ...

, east to Altai. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

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

External links

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''Eilema pygmaeola'' on ''Fauna Europaea''''Eilema pygmaeola'' on ''Lepiforum e.V.''
Lithosiina Moths described in 1847 Moths of Europe Moths of Asia Taxa named by Henry Doubleday {{Lithosiina-stub