Scopula sentinaria

Scopula sentinaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from Alaska to Labrador, south in the prairies to southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. In the mountains it ranges south to Colorado.[2] The species is also found in northern Russia[3] and the Sayan Mountains. The habitat consists of dry shrubby clearings and edges.

Scopula sentinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. sentinaria
Binomial name
Scopula sentinaria
(Geyer, 1837)[1]
Synonyms
  • Haematopis sentinaria Geyer, 1837
  • Holarctias sentinaria
  • Thamnonoma gracilior Butler, 1893
  • Aspilates spuraria Christoph, 1858
  • Acidalia rufinularia Staudinger, 1901
  • Acidalia rufinaria Staudinger, 1861
  • Acidalia rufociliaria Bremer, 1864

The wingspan is 20–27 mm. Adults are dull red-brown to bright rusty-orange. The basal half of the forewings is usually suffused with darker scales. Adults are on wing from early June to late July in one generation in North America.

Larvae have been reared on Polygonum aviculare. Fourth or fifth instar larvae overwinter.

Subspecies
  • Scopula sentinaria sentinaria (North America)
  • Scopula sentinaria rufinaria (Staudinger, 1861) (northern Russia)
  • Scopula sentinaria rufinularia (Staudinger, 1901) (Sayan Mountains)

References
  1. Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
  2. University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
  3. Fauna Europaea


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