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Rheumaptera hastata (spear-marked black)

Synonyms: Larentia latifasciata; Melanippe hastaria; Melanippe hastata; Phalaena hastata (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Argent and sable moths or Rheumaptera hastata are day flying moths of the Geometridae family, with distinctive black and white colourings. They tend to live on wetlands and hillsides. The larvae spin together the leaves of their food plants (such as birch and bog myrtle) to form their cocoons. It was named argent and sable in 1778. Argent and sable refers to the heraldic color names for black and white. Their distribution is Holarctic.
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Infraspecies

Rheumaptera hastata gothicata
Rheumaptera hastata hastata
Rheumaptera hastata nigrescens
Rheumaptera hastata plotothrymma
Rheumaptera hastata thulearia

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Parasitized by 
Dusona petiolator[4]
Heterischnus pulex[4]

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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
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Ecology of Commanster
♦ 5Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-03-21; License: CC BY 4.0