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Family	Zygaenidae
Sub Family
Description	forester and burnet moths
Background to Family	Day-flying moths that display vivid warning colouration, and occur in colonies in open habitats, especially grassland. The caterpillars specialise on particular dicot herbs (foresters, Procridinae), or mainly on leguminous herbs (burnets, Zygaeninae, on Fabaceae). The adults feed conspicuously at flowers.

No. taxa in DBIF	15
No. interactions	86
% interactions with British data	79%
No. records	143
% taxa with British data	100%
Notes	Old data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings. New material added from Waring, Townsend & Lewington, 2003. Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing, UK.; ;
Notes on Sources
Most recent source	2003

Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.


Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 25
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:98
Source	Eds. Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (1985) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1-460:114
Source	Friedrich, E.(1978) NachrBl. bayer. Ent. 26:6 101-104:103
Source	Porter, J. (1997) The Colour Identification Guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles. 1-154, 2
Source	Tremewan, W.G.(1980) Entomologist's Gaz. 31 143-145:143
Source	Elliott, B.(1980) Entomologist's Gaz. 31 1-1:1
Source	Porter, J. (1997) The Colour Identification Guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles. 1-154, 3
Source	Eds. Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (1985) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1-460:112
Source	Compton, S. (1984-01-24) fauna. :2
Source	Noble, K. (1975) Working draft of "The Natural foodplants of Macrolepidoptera larvae in Britain, Part II." Field Studies Council :3
Source	Eds. Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (1985) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1-460:104
Source	Noble, K. (1975) Working draft of "The Natural foodplants of Macrolepidoptera larvae in Britain, Part II." Field Studies Council :2
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:100
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 24
Source	Eds. Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (1985) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1-460:108
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:107
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:109
Source	Tremewan, W.G.(1982) Entomologist's Gaz. 33 9-11:10
Source	Porter, J. (1997) The Colour Identification Guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles. 1-154, 4
Source	Waring, P. Townsend, M (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. 1-432, 26
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:91
Source	Eds. Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (1985) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1-460:106
Source	Tremewan, W.G.(1982) Entomologist's Gaz. 33 12-12:12
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:93
Source	Eds. Heath, J. & Emmet, A.M. (1985) The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1-460:110
Source	Blab, J. & Kudrna, O. (1982) Hilfsprogramm fur Schmetterlinge 1-135:95

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