Scopula caricaria

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

Scopula caricaria is a moth of the Geometridae family. 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]

The wingspan is 24–28 mm. 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

^ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
^ Fauna Europaea
^ LOT Moths and Butterflies

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[1] Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.

[2] Fauna Europaea

[3] LOT Moths and Butterflies

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