Tethea ocularis
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Drepanidae |
Genus: | Tethea |
Species: | T. ocularis
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Binomial name | |
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Tethea ocularis, the figure of eighty, is a moth of the family Drepanidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found throughout Continental Europe and has a scattered distribution in England and Wales, although it is absent from Scotland and Ireland.
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The wingspan is 35–45 mm; the dark brown forewings being marked with dark-centred white stigmata which do look rather like the number 80. The hindwings are grey. The species flies from May to July[1] and is attracted to light and sugar.
The grey and white larva feeds on poplar and aspen. The species overwinters as a pupa.
Subspecies
[edit]- Tethea ocularis ocularis
- Tethea ocularis ocularis amurensis (Warren, 1912) (Russian Far East, north-eastern and northern China, Mongolia, Korea)
- Tethea ocularis opa Zolotuhin, 1997 (Uzbekistan, China: Xinjiang)
- Tethea ocularis osthelderi (Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937) (Iran)
- Tethea ocularis tanakai Inoue, 1982 (Japan)
- ^ The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.
References
[edit]- Chinery, Michael (1986, reprinted 1991). Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe.
- Skinner, Bernard (1984). The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles.
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- Kimber, Ian. "65.010 BF1654 Figure of Eighty Tethea ocularis (Linnaeus, 1767)". UKMoths. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- Lepiforum e.V.