Lycia zonaria
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The Belted Beauty is a moth
of the Geometridae family. It is found in most of Europe
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The wingspan
is 27-30 mm. Females are wingless. Adult males are on wing from March to April.
The larvae feed on a range of low-growing plants, including Salix repens and Rosa pimpinellifolia
.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Geometridae family. It is found in most of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 27-30 mm. Females are wingless. Adult males are on wing from March to April.
The larvae feed on a range of low-growing plants, including Salix repens and Rosa pimpinellifolia
Rosa pimpinellifolia
Rosa pimpinellifolia is a species of rose native to western, central and southern Europe and northwest Africa...
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Subspecies
- Lycia zonaria zonaria
- Lycia zonaria rossica (Harrison, 1910)
- Lycia zonaria britannica (Harrison, 1912)