Eupithecia silenicolata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found from southern Europe (southern France, central Italy and the Balkan Peninsula) and Morocco to western Asia (Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus), Iran and Pakistan.[2] In the north, the range extends to southern Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Eupithecia |
| Species: | E. silenicolata
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The wingspan is about 22 mm.[3] Adults are on wing from May to June and again from July to August in two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Silene species which are related to Silene nutans, especially Silene paradoxa. The species overwinters in the pupal stage.[4]
Subspecies edit
- Eupithecia silenicolata silenicolata
- Eupithecia silenicolata perdistincta Wehrli, 1933 (Lebanon)
- Eupithecia silenicolata soultanabadi Brandt, 1941 (Iran)[5]
- Eupithecia silenicolata zengoensis Fazekas, 1979
References edit
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- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia silenicolata Mabille 1867". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.
- ^ Mironov, V.G. ,A.C. Galsworthy & U. Ratzel, 2008, A survey of the Eupithecia fauna (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of the Western Himalayas: Part 2, Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 59 (2): 117-143.
- ^ Lepiforum.de
- ^ Schmetterlinge und ihre Ökologie
- ^ Mironov, V. & U. Ratzel, 2012: New species of the genus Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentii-nae) from Iran. Zootaxa 3580: 56-68. Abstract: [1]
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