Venusia cambrica
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| Venusia cambrica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Venusia |
| Species: | V. cambrica |
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| Venusia cambrica Curtis, 1839[1] | |
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The Welsh Wave (Venusia cambrica) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in Europe, western and central Siberia, Altai, Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and in North America, where it can be found across Canada from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia, south in the west to California, south in the east to Georgia.
Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6
The wingspan is 27–30 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August in western Europe, from June to September in New Brunswick and Quebec and from March to August in California. There are two generations per year.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Sorbus aucuparia. Other recorded foodplants include alder, apple, birch, mountain ash, serviceberry and willow.
Subspecies
- Venusia cambrica cambrica (Holarctic region)
- Venusia cambrica aphrodite Bryk, 1942 (Russia: Kuriles)
References
- ↑ "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997-2012. Retrieved 2013.
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