Scopula turbulentaria
| Scopula turbulentaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. turbulentaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula turbulentaria (Staudinger, 1870)[1] | |
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The Dotted Ochre Wave (Scopula turbulentaria) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in southern Russia, Albania, Romania, Greece, the Republic of Macedonia and Italy and on Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, as well as in Turkey.[2]
The larvae feed on Nicotiana species, Plantago lanceolata and other low-growing plants.[4]
Taxonomy
The species was formerly treated as a subspecies of Scopula turbidaria.
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- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ lepiforum.de
- ↑ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa