Scotopteryx mucronata

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Lead belle
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scotopteryx
Species:
S. mucronata
Binomial name
Scotopteryx mucronata
(Scopoli, 1763) [1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena mucronataScopoli, 1763
  • Ortholitha scoticaCockayne, 1940

Scotopteryx mucronata, the lead belle, is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in most of Europe, Turkey, Ukraine, West Siberia.

The wingspan is 30–38 mm. See Townsend et al. [2]

Adults are on wing from May to June in one generation per year. [3]

The larvae feed on Ulex and Cytisus species. The species overwinters in the larval stage.

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Martin C. Townsend, Jon Clifton and Brian Goodey (2010). British and Irish Moths: An Illustrated Guide to Selected Difficult Species. (covering the use of genitalia characters and other features) Butterfly Conservation.
  3. UKmoths