Scopula umbelaria
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. umbelaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula umbelaria (Hübner, [1813])[1] | |
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Scopula umbelaria is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the Benelux, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Russia.[2] In the east, the range extends to the eastern part of the Palaearctic ecozone.
The wingspan is 29–33 mm.[3] Adults are on wing from late May to early July in one generation per year.[4]
The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa, Vincetoxicum hirundinaria, Clematis, Polygonum, Vicia and Solidago species.[5] Larvae can be found from the fall to May. The species overwinters in the larval stage.
Subspecies
- Scopula umbelaria umbelaria
- Scopula umbelaria graeseri Prout, 1935
- Scopula umbelaria majoraria (Leech, 1897)
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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
- ↑ lepidoptera.pl
- ↑ vlindernet.nl
- ↑ euroleps.ch