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Eupithecia venosata (Netted Pug)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eupithecia venosata, the netted pug, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found across the Palearctic ecozone from Portugal and Morocco in the west to the Baikal Lake in Siberia and Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. The moth flies from April to June depending on the location. The larvae feed on Silene species, preferably Silene vulgaris, Silene dioica and Silene maritima.
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Infraspecies

Eupithecia venosata fumosae
Eupithecia venosata hebridensis
Eupithecia venosata ochracae
Eupithecia venosata plumbea
Eupithecia venosata venosata

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Silene acaulis (moss campion)[1]
Silene behen (maiden's tears)[2]
Silene dioica (red catchfly)[1]
Silene gallica (common catchfly)[1]
Silene nutans (Eurasian catchfly)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
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