Eupithecia venosata

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Eupithecia venosata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species:
E. venosata
Binomial name
Eupithecia venosata
(Fabricius, 1787) [1]
Synonyms
List
    • Phalaena venosataFabricius, 1787
    • Eupithecia comparandaVojnits, 1981
    • Phalaena decussataDonovan, 1799
    • Phalaena insignataHubner, 1789
    • Eupithecia griseaDietze, 1913
    • Eupithecia nubilataBohatsch, 1893
    • Eupithecia orcadensisProut, 1901

Eupithecia venosata, the netted pug, is a moth of the family Geometridae, first described by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found across the Palearctic realm from Portugal and Morocco in the west to the Lake Baikal in Siberia and Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. [2]

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Description

The length of the forewings is 10–14 mm. The ground colour of the forewings and hindwings is brown to creamy white The forewings are large and round. Several light, black-edged, lines and the partly black coloured veins form a characteristic lattice. The hindwings have a similar, but greatly weakened pattern. Very strongly resembles Eupithecia schiefereri and is distinguishable from this clearly only by means of a genital examination. [3]

Forma

fumosae Gregson (= nubilata Bohatsch, grisea Dietze) is a dark smoke-coloured race from the Shetland Islands. – In ab. bandanae Gregson the white bands remain conspicuous on the smoky ground. Among fumosae. – ochracae Gregson (= orcadensis Prout) also has the ground-colour darkened, but ochreous or clay-yellowish, not smoky; markings normal or sometimes weakened as in fumosae Orkney Islands. [4] See subspecies.

The larva is pale pinkish grey, darker on the back, with scattered, upstanding brushes. The pupa is shiny brown-yellow with a dark brown cremaster, which has at the base five beaded elevations and a stretched tip with several bristles. [5] [6] [7]

Biology

The moth flies from April to June depending on the location.

vacated calyx, Bagillt, North Wales, July 2016 Eupithecia venosata, Netted Pug, vacated calyx, Bagillt, North Wales, July 2016 - Flickr - janetgraham84.jpg
vacated calyx, Bagillt, North Wales, July 2016

The larvae feed spun up on campion ( Silene species), preferably bladder campion ( Silene vulgaris ), red campion ( Silene dioica ) and sea campion ( Silene maritima ).The pupa hibernates sometimes for two winters

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia venosata (Fabricius 1787)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Mironov, V. G. & Ratzel, U. (2012). "Eupithecia Curtis, 1825 of Afghanistan (Geometridae: Larentiinae)". Nota Lepidopterologica. 35 (2): 197–231. Archived from the original 11 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Watson, L. & Dallwitz, M. J. (2003 onwards). "Eupithecia venosata (Fabricius)" Archived 15 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine . Insects of Britain and Ireland: The Pug Moths (Lepidoptera-Geometridae). Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  5. ↑ Vladimir Mironov: The Geometrid Moths of the World. In: Axel Hausmann (Hrsg.): The Geometrid Moths of Europe. 1. Auflage. Volume 4: Larentiinae II. Perizomini and Eupitheciini. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2003, ISBN   87-88757-40-4
  6. ↑ Riley, A.M. and Prior, G. British and Irish Pug Moths A Guide to their Identification and BiologyApollo BooksISBN 780946589517
  7. ↑ Wikisource:The Moths of the British Isles Second Series/Chapter 9#230
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