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Cleora cinctaria (Ringed Carpet)

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Cleora cinctaria, the ringed carpet, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Europe to southern Siberia, Turkey, the Caucasus, central Asia and Mongolia. It is also found in Japan. The wingspan is 28–35 mm. The wings have a light grey ground colour.The lines are brown. The intensity of the grey or brown colouration varies quite strongly. The interior cross line is band-like and widened basally, the exterior cross line is curved towards the front edge and is usually double.The brownish darkened margin has a white wavy line and white dusting.On the hind wings are dark lines and an often indistinct whitish squiggle. The first abdominal segment appears in the form of a white belt. The antennae of the males are combed on both sides, those of the females are filiform.
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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
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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