Scopula turbulentaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Scopula |
Species: | S. turbulentaria
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Binomial name | |
Scopula turbulentaria (Staudinger, 1870)[1]
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Scopula turbulentaria, the dotted ochre wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in southern Russia, Albania, Romania, Greece, North Macedonia and Italy and on Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, as well as in Turkey.[2]
The larvae feed on Nicotiana species, Plantago lanceolata and other low-growing plants.[4]
The species was formerly treated as a subspecies of Scopula turbidaria.