Scopula caricaria

Scopula caricaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Spain, Italy, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, north-western Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.[2]

Scopula caricaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. caricaria
Binomial name
Scopula caricaria
(Reutti, 1853)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia caricaria Reutti, 1853
  • Phalaena immaculataria Villers, 1789 (nomen dubium)
  • Phalaena virginalis Fourcroy, 1785 (nomen dubium)
  • Scopula virginalis
  • Acidalia phlearia Reutti, 1853

The wingspan is 24–28 millimetres (0.94–1.10 in). Adults are on wing from July to September in one generation per year. Although there is a partial second generation in the southern part of the range.

The larvae feed on Centaurea and Artemisia species.[3]

References
  1. Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
  2. "Scopula (Scopula) caricaria (Reutti, 1853)". 2.6.2. Fauna Europaea. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  3. "LOT Moths and Butterflies". July 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2017.


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