Zygaena vesubiana Le Charles, 1933

Zygaena brizae ssp. vesubiana Le Charles, 1933: 253 .

FIRST RECORD FOR THE VALDIERI AREA. — Turati & Verity (1912).

CHOROTYPE. — W Alpine.

ECOLOGY. — Natural and semi-natural open herbaceous areas. This taxon is considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Zygaena brizae (Esper, 1800), which is restricted to south-eastern France and north-western Italy, where it has been recorded only in the region of Piedmont, Val d’Aosta and Liguria (Naumann et al. 1999; Hellmann et al. 1999). Known lhp is Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.