Pseudoterpna coronillaria

Pseudoterpna coronillaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pseudoterpna
Species: P. coronillaria
Binomial name
Pseudoterpna coronillaria
(Hübner, 1796)[1][2]
Synonyms
  • Geometra coronillaria Hübner, [1817]
  • Geometra cytisaria var. cinerascens Zeller, 1847
  • Pseudoterpna armoraciaria Oberthür, 1896

Pseudoterpna coronillaria, the Jersey emerald or gorse emerald, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is known from Spain, Portugal, the Pyrenees, western and southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Samos, Rhodos, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, northern Jordan and North Africa. It has not been reported from mainland Great Britain, but is present on Jersey, where it was previously overlooked as a form of the grass emerald, until 2001 when it was correctly identified.

The wingspan is 36–40 millimetres (1.4–1.6 in). Adults resemble Pseudoterpna pruinata, but are generally greyer-looking with just a hint of a greenish tinge, and have a sprinkling of darker scales. They are on wing in June and July in western Europe.[3]

The larvae feed on Genista tinctoria, Ulex species and broom.[4]

Subspecies

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Pitkin, Linda M. ; Hongxiang Han & Shayleen James, 2007, Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 343-412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x
  3. UKmoths
  4. Hants Moths
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