Callimorpha dominula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1: p. 509, no. 68.
Described in the genus Phalaena (Noctua). Translated from the Latin
original.

Dominula. 68. Phalaena Noctua with spiral tongue, smooth, with depressed
black wings: the upper ones spotted with blue, yellow and white, the lower
ones with red.
Mer. eur. 2. t. 38. Roes. ins. 3. t. 47. Alb. ins. t. 22. Wilk. pap. 19.
t. 3. a. 3.
Lives on Cynoglossum, Fraxinus, Salix.
Larva hairy, black, dotted with white in three rows.
The abdomen of the moth red with black bands.

Seitz, A. (1910). Callimorpha. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 2, The Palaearctic Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 101, pl. 18 e.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 2: 101.)

C. dominula L. (= profuga Goze, domina Hbn.) (18 e). The Scarlet Tiger has
black-green glossy forewing, with the spots at the middle and apex of the
cell and near the base of the inner margin ochreous and the other spots
white. Hindwing deep dark red with a black spot before the apex of the cell
and black marginal markings. Abdomen red with broad black dorsal stripe and
apex. Throughout Europe with the exception of the Arctic countries and many
islands, eastward to the countries around the Black Sea. About 20 varieties
have been erected, some being aberrations, some geographical races, and
Standfuss has obtained a number of inconstant but highly interesting forms
by crossing different races. The spots on the forewing may all be white
(ab. hamelensis Pflumer), without there being any other distinction. In ab.
conferta Schultz the usually white spots on the forewing are confluent. In
ab. fasciata Spul. the spots of the forewing merge together in pairs to form
transverse bands. In ab. paucimacula Schultz the spots are reduced, often
being absent with the exception of one. In ab. marita Schultz the spots of
the forewing are absent. In ab. romanovi Standfss. (18 e) the black of the
hindwing is increased, only the base being red, while in ab. nigra Spul.
both wings are black above. ab. nexa Schultz has the discal spot of the
hindwing united with the black colour of the margin, but is otherwise
normal. ab. radiata Krodel has two white radial basal streaks on the
underside of the forewing. -- Beside these variations, which may occur
anywhere, there is a series of geographical races which in some localities
are the only form and in others occur among name-typical specimens:
lusitanica Stgr. has the forewing like ordinary dominula, but the hindwing
is yellow. Singly already in South Germany. -- rossica Koll. (18 e) like
the preceding with yellow hindwing, but the spots on the forewing all white
and mostly rather larger. -- bithynica Stgr. has all the spots of the
forewing yellow or brownish, the hindwing red, with the black like that on
the abdomen increased. -- In the extreme South-East of the area of
distribution insubrica Wackz., with the hindwing tinged with yellow, forms
a transition from bithynica to italica. In certain alpine valleys. --
italica Standfss. (= donna Costa) has the hindwing very dark yellow,
sometimes strongly reddish, while the spots of the forewing are larger; in
Central and Upper Italy, where it is locally constant. -- bieli Stgr. is a
very conspicuous form in which the spots of the forewing are all
orange-yellow and the hindwing yellow.