Thanks guys, but you know, when you have your face stuck in to the grass looking for tiny beasts, any little movement can capture your attention, in that case a little crab spider. Moral of the story, the moth flied away, no pics with open wings.
Here's one where the number and shape of red spots seems to be quite a good match:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygaena_loti
I am still checking some more :-)
They are quite annoying and tricky but I'll try to have a look. A picture with opened wings would help. I hope others too can help further. Lovely shot in any case :-)
Buon giorno Filippo! Here you'll find a list of Zygaena for Italy.
http://www.leps.it/
Yours is probably on this list too:
http://pieris.ch/seiten/main.php?page=fam&fam=zyg
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