Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae > Disclisioprocta > Disclisioprocta stellata

Disclisioprocta stellata (Somber Carpet)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Disclisioprocta stellata, the somber carpet or bougainvillea looper, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in sub Saharan Africa, the islands of the Indian Ocean. It is also found from eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), south through the United States, Mexico, the Antilles, Bahamas and Bermuda Islands to Bolivia and Brazil. It was introduced to Hawaii in 1993. The wingspan is 25-33 mm. In North America, adults are on wing all year round in the south and from July to November in the north.
View Wikipedia Record: Disclisioprocta stellata

Prey / Diet

Boerhavia erecta (erect spiderling)[1]
Phytolacca americana (common pokeweed)[2]
Pisonia aculeata (pullback)[2]

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Tournefortia rufo-sericea[3]
Varronia leucophlyctis[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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
3Flower-visiting insects of the Galapagos Islands, McCullen, C. K. 1993. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 69:95-106
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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