Variable burnet

Weight

Not recorded

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grassland

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Active

By day (diurnal)

Generations a year

One

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderLepidoptera
5. familyZygaenidae
6. genusZygaena
7. SpeciesZygaena ephialtes (Linnaeus, 1767)

Synonyms Sphinx ephialtes, Sphinx falcatae, Zygaena aeacusdecedens, Zygaena aemilii, Zygaena athamanthoides, Zygaena aurantiacadecedens, Zygaena aurantiacofucosa, Zygaena aurantiacomutabilis, Zygaena bahri, Zygaena basibicolora, Zygaena basidepuncta, Zygaena basiimmaculata, Zygaena basiunimacula, Zygaena bicolorata, Zygaena bimaculata, Zygaena bimaculosa, Zygaena bimutata, Zygaena bipunctata, Zygaena burgeffi, Zygaena coronilloides, Zygaena diffusa, Zygaena duplex, Zygaena ephialtes falcatae, Zygaena ephialtes rubens, Zygaena esperi, Zygaena falcatae, Zygaena flavobimaculosa, Zygaena flavobimutata, Zygaena flavobipuncta, Zygaena flavoduplex, Zygaena flavofucosa, Zygaena flavomaculosa, Zygaena flavomutabilis, Zygaena flavopuncta, Zygaena flavotriplex, Zygaena herrichschaefferi, Zygaena ictericadecedens, Zygaena magnimacula, Zygaena mattheyi, Zygaena nigroaurantiaca, Zygaena nigroprinzi, Zygaena pallidoaeacus, Zygaena pallidocoronillae, Zygaena pallidoephialtes, Zygaena pallidoicterica, Zygaena pallidomedusa, Zygaena pallidopeucedani, Zygaena pallidotrigonellae, Zygaena parvimacula, Zygaena parvulus, Zygaena peucedanoides, Zygaena prinzidecedens, Zygaena pseudomedusa, Zygaena pseudotrigonellae, Zygaena quinquemaculata, Zygaena rubrofucosa, Zygaena rubromutabilis, Zygaena rubropuncta, Zygaena scheveni, Zygaena semiguenneri, Zygaena semipeucedani, Zygaena sophiae, Zygaena trigonelloides, Zygaena triplex, Zygaena unipunctata, Zygaena valesiaca, Zygaena violaceoaeacus, Zygaena violaceocoronillae, Zygaena violaceoephialtes, Zygaena violaceoicterica, Zygaena violaceomedusa, Zygaena violaceometzgeri, Zygaena violaceopeucedani, Zygaena violaceoprinzi, Zygaena violaceotriplex, Zygaena wullschlegeli, Zygaena wutzdorffi

Catalogue of Life

Six-spot burnet

Zygaena filipendulae

Zygaenidae

E

Eastern burnet

Zygaena carniolica

ZygaenidaeNo free photo yet

N

Narrow-bordered five-spot burnet

Zygaena lonicerae

ZygaenidaeNo free photo yet

F

Five-spot burnet

Zygaena trifolii

ZygaenidaeNo free photo yet

S

Slender scotch burnet

Zygaena loti

ZygaenidaeNo free photo yet

S

Scotch burnet

Zygaena exulans

ZygaenidaeNo free photo yet

CompareVariable burnet vs Six-spot burnetVariable burnet vs Eastern burnetVariable burnet vs Narrow-bordered five-spot burnetVariable burnet vs Five-spot burnet

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@misc{variable_burnet_2026,
  title = {Variable burnet (Zygaena ephialtes)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/variable-burnet},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}