Jersey tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria)
English: Venus, Mars and Cupido; by Piero di Cosimo, Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Detail.
Español: Berlín, Gemäldegalerie. Piero di Cosimo, Venus, Marte y el Amor.
Date circa 1505
Author Piero di Cosimo
Photographer Miguel Hermoso Cuesta https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MiguelHermoso
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berl%C3%ADn_di_Cosimo_04.JPG
The Jersey tiger moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria) is a day-flying moth of the family Erebidae. Euplagia quadripunctaria is widely distributed in Europe from Estonia and Latvia in the north to the Mediterranean coast and islands in the south. It is also found in West Russia, South Urals, Asia Minor, Rhodes and nearby islands, the Near East, Caucasus, South Turkmenistan, and Iran. |