Perconia strigillaria
Perconia strigillaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Perconia |
Species: | P. strigillaria |
Binomial name | |
Perconia strigillaria Hübner, 1787 | |
Perconia strigillaria, the grass wave, is a moth of the Geometridae family. The species can be found in Europe East to the Urals, Asia Minor and the Tarbagatai Mountains (China).
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The wingspan is 36–41 mm. The forewing ground colour is white with fuscous irroration. The crosslines are wide The antennae are comb-like."White, with fuscous irroration; all the lines present, usually also a subterminal dark line. Median line (or shade) variable in position and thickness. - ab. herpeticaria Rbr. Antemedian and median lines of wing thick and closely approximated, sometimes confluent into a band. - grisearia Stgr. is a greyer form the white ground-colour nearly suppressed. Frequent in N. Europe, but not very sharply separable from the name-type. Most British examples are intermediate. - cretaria Ev. is a clearer white, weakly marked form from S. E. Russia, sometimes quite markingless." [1]
The moths fly from June to July depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Cytisus scoparius and Calluna, Erica and Ulex species.
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.
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