Xanthorhoe designata
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Xanthorhoe designata, the flame carpet, is a moth of the genus Xanthorhoe in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767.
Distribution
Description
"Coloured nearly as in munitata but the median band is light red and with a conspicuous black bar at its proximal edge and usually with the distal edge also — at least in its anterior part, conspicuously black. Under surface more weakly marked. - ab. coarctata ab. nov. [Prout] has the median band greatly narrowed, usually very dark, about as in the corresponding aberration of ferrugata. - islandicaria Stgr. has the ground-colour more weakly marked, often whiter, the median band also pale in its centre but commonly with the black edgings widened. Iceland."Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.
The larva is relatively powerful, naked except for a few short bristles and brownish with a bright lateral stripe.
Image:Buckler W The larvæ of the British butterflies and moths PlateCXL.jpg
Biology
The moth flies from the beginning of April to the end of September.
It is found in meadows, damp woodland, hedgerows and suburban gardens.
The larvae feed on species of Brassicaceae. Xanthorhoe designata overwinters as a pupa.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/xanthorhoe-designata/ Flame carpet at UKMoths]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170312072948/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=445333 Fauna Europaea]
- [http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Xanthorhoe_Designata Lepiforum e.V.]
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Category:Taxa named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
Category:Moths described in 1767
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