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Cyclophora albipunctata (Birch Mocha)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cyclophora albipunctata, the birch mocha, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Palearctic The southern boundary runs westward along the French Atlantic coast and to the British Isles and North of the Alps. In the East, the species range to the Pacific Ocean (Russian Far East). South of the North Alps line it is found in some higher elevation areas and mountains.In the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Southern Alps, the Northern Dinaric Alps, in the Western and Northern Carpathians, in northern Turkey and the Caucasus. In the North, the range extends up to the Arctic circle. In the far East the nominate is replaced by subspecies albipunctata griseolata Staudinger, 1897.
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Infraspecies

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Prey / Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)[1]
Betula intermedia (dwarf birch)[2]
Betula pendula (European white birch)[2]
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)[2]

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1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0