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Biston betularia (peppered moth)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The peppered moth (Biston betularia) is a temperate species of night-flying moth. Peppered moth evolution is an example of population genetics and natural selection.
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Infraspecies

Biston betularia betularia
Biston betularia cognataria
Biston betularia contrasta
Biston betularia coreae
Biston betularia f. betularia
Biston betularia f. carbonaria
Biston betularia f. insularia
Biston betularia f. typica
Biston betularia fumosarius
Biston betularia nepalensis
Biston betularia parva
Biston betularia vlachi

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.693 inches (.043 m)

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Auditory influences on the flight behaviour of moths in a Nearctic site. I. Flight tendency, Scott B. Morrill and James H. Fullard, CAN. J. ZOOL. VOL. 70, 1992, pp. 1097-1101
♦ 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
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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