| Scopula flaccidaria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. flaccidaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula flaccidaria | |
| Synonyms | |
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Scopula flaccidaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Zeller in 1852. It is found in the Asia Minor, [2] Russia and south-eastern Europe. [3]
The wingspan is 19–23 millimetres (0.75–0.91 in).
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek geo γεω, and metron μέτρον "measure" in reference to the way their larvae, or inchworms, appear to measure the earth as they move along in a looping fashion. A very large family, it has around 23,000 species of moths described, and over 1400 species from six subfamilies indigenous to North America alone. A well-known member is the peppered moth, Biston betularia, which has been subject of numerous studies in population genetics. Several other geometer moths are notorious pests.
Scopula decorata, the middle lace border, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe.
Scopula immorata, the Lewes wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe and the Near East.
Scopula is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1802.
Scopula ornata, the lace border, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica. It is found in Europe, North Africa and the Near East.
Scopula cacuminaria, the frosted tan wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1874. It is found in North America across southern Canada, from the Maritimes to southern British Columbia, south to Texas.
Scopula frigidaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1869. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.
Scopula inductata, the soft-lined wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in North America, from Newfoundland to the coast of British Columbia, north to the Northwest Territories, south to Alabama and Utah.
Scopula minorata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833. It is found in Africa south of the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula and on the islands of the Indian Ocean. Furthermore, it is found in southern Europe. It can be distinguished from Scopula lactaria only by examination of its genitalia.
Scopula emutaria, the rosy wave, is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in western and south-western Europe and Romania. Also in North Africa.
Scopula addictaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Scopula ancellata, the angled wave moth or pointed-winged wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1887. It is found in North America from Quebec west to the Northwest Territories and British Columbia and south to Michigan, Indiana and Arizona. The habitat consists of mixed wood and coniferous forests.
Scopula apicipunctata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1881. It is found in Siberia, the Kuriles and Japan.
Scopula apparitaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in South and Central America, the Greater Antilles and Florida. The type location is Honduras.
Scopula arenosaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Staudinger in 1879. It is found in south-eastern Russia.
Scopula aspilataria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Scopula impersonata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in China, the Russian Far East, Taiwan and Japan.
Scopula modicaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1897. It is found in China, the Russian Far East, Korea and Japan.
Scopula nupta is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Japan, China and the Russian Far East.
Scopula orientalis is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1876. It is found in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Korea.