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Manulea pygmaeola, the pigmy footman, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the western half of the Palearctic realm, east to Altai.

Pigmy footman
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Manulea
Species:	M. pygmaeola
Binomial name
Manulea pygmaeola (Doubleday, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
List Lithosia pygmaeola Doubleday, 1847 Eilema pygmaeolum Eilema pygmaeola Lithosia pallifrons Zeller, 1847 Lithosia marcida Mann, 1859 Lithosia pallifrons saerdabensis Daniel, 1939 Lithosia pallifrons peluri Daniel, 1939 Lithosia pallifrons ab. grisea Fuchs, 1903 Eilema naneola Ragusa, 1889 Lithosia pygmaeola f. obscura Lempke, 1961 Lithosia pallifrons f. sericeola Kanerva, 1935

The wingspan is 24–28 mm. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from June to August.

The larvae feed on various species of lichen on rocks and wooden poles. Larvae are found from August to June. The species overwinters in the larval stage.

Subspecies

• Manulea pygmaeola pygmaeola
• Manulea pygmaeola banghaasi (Seitz, 1910) (Asia Minor, Transcaucasia)
• Manulea pygmaeola pallifrons (Zeller, 1847) (north-western Africa, Europe, Crimea, Caucasus)
• Manulea pygmaeola saerdabense (Daniel, 1939) (western Kopet Dagh, northern Iran, Mountains of eastern Central Asia)

References

External links

• Kimber, Ian. "72.048 BF2046 Pigmy Footman Eilema pygmaeola (Doubleday, 1847)". UKMoths. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
• Eilema pygmaeola on Fauna Europaea
• Eilema pygmaeola on Lepiforum e.V.

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