The cream wave is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It is found in forest and woodland regions, feeding on grasses and small plants such as dandelion.
Sterrhinae is a large subfamily of geometer moths with some 3,000 described species, with more than half belonging to the taxonomically difficult, very diverse genera, Idaea and Scopula. This subfamily was described by Edward Meyrick in 1892. They are the most diverse in the tropics with the number of species decreasing with increasing latitude and elevation.
Scopulini is a tribe of the geometer moth family (Geometridae), with about 900 species in seven genera. The tribe was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1845.
Scopula incanata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is found from north-eastern Europe and the Caucasus to southern Siberia and northern Mongolia.
Scopula virgulata, the streaked wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found from most of Europe to central Asia and northern Mongolia.
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 pudicaria is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found from north-eastern China to south-eastern Russia, Korea and Japan.
Scopula subpunctaria is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is found from northern and north-eastern China to the southern Palearctic realm.
Scopula indicataria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in China, Korea, Japan and Russia.
Scopula humifusaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Kyrghyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Scopula latelineata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Scopula luridata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in southern Europe, Asia Minor, China, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Oman and Japan.
Scopula nemoraria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from central to eastern Europe, east to Russia and China.
Scopula praecanata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Tibet and central China (Sichuan).
Scopula pulchellata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and the Solomon Islands, as well as in Africa.
Scopula purata, the chalky wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found in eastern North America, from Ontario and New Hampshire to Florida and to Mississippi.
Scopula turbulentaria, the dotted ochre wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in southern Russia, Albania, Romania, Greece, North Macedonia and Italy and on Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, as well as in Turkey.
Scopula tessellaria, the dusky-brown wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Albania, former Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, Greece, Moldova, Ukraine and Russia. In the east, the range extends to the Near East and the eastern part of the Palaearctic realm.
Scopula szechuanensis is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in central China (Sichuan).
Scopula tsekuensis is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in south-western China.
