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Entephria flavicinctata

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Yellow-ringed Carpet (Entephria flavicinctata) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the mountainous areas of the Palearctic ecozone The distribution is disjunct extending across the Pyrenees, the Alps, some lower mountains (Vosges, Iceland, British Isles) and then from Norway across the Arctic to northern Russia. The wingspan is 27–39 mm. The ground colour is pale grey. The basal, central and outer marginal cross lines are suffused with yellow. The hindwings are pale white. Adults are on wing from June to August and sometimes also in May.
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Infraspecies

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Saxifraga aizoides (yellow mountain saxifrage)[1]
Saxifraga oppositifolia latina (purple mountain saxifrage)[1]
Sedum acre (goldmoss stonecrop)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Branta leucopsis (Barnacle Goose)1
Entephria caesiata (Grey Mountain Carpet)1
Standfussiana lucernea (Northern Rustic)2

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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