• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  Français	Zygène dorée

• Synonyms and other combinations

• Latin name	Author
  Zygaena tachdirtica	Reiss, 1943

• Zygaena (Mesembrynus) aurata is a member of the clade Zygaena favonia:

• Species	Author
  Zygaena (Mesembrynus) aurata	Blachier, 1905
  Zygaena (Mesembrynus) contaminei	Boisduval, 1834
  Zygaena (Mesembrynus) favonia	Freyer, [1844]
  Zygaena (Mesembrynus) loyselis	Oberthür, 1876
  Zygaena (Mesembrynus) punctum	Ochsenheimer, 1808
  Zygaena (Mesembrynus) sarpedon	(Hübner, 1790)

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	Lepiforum e. V.
  	Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa	Paolo Mazzei

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