Xanthorhoe designata
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| Species: | X. designata
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| Xanthorhoe designata Hufnagel, 1767
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Xanthorhoe designata, the flame carpet, is a moth of the genus Xanthorhoe in the family Geometridae.
Distribution
Europe, Asiatic Russia and Japan.
Description
"Coloured nearly as in munitata but the median band is light red and with a conspicuous black bar at its proximal edge and usually with the distal edge also — at least in its anterior part, conspicuously black.Under surface more weakly marked. - ab. coarctata ab. nov. [Prout] has the median band greatly narrowed, usually very dark, about as in the corresponding aberration of ferrugata. - islandicaria Stgr. has the ground-colour more weakly marked, often whiter, the median band also pale in its centre but commonly with the black edgings widened. Iceland." [1]
Biology
The moth flies from the beginning of April to the end of September.
Habitats: meadows, damp woodland, hedgerows and suburban gardens.
The larvae feed on species of Brassicaceae. Xanthorhoe designata overwinters as a pupa.
References
- ^ Prout , L.B. 1912–16. Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.
