Dysstroma citrata
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The Dark Marbled Carpet or Northern Marbled Carpet (Dysstroma citrata) is a moth
of the Geometridae family. It is found in both the Palearctic ecozone and the Nearctic ecozone. It has also been reported from India
.
The wingspan
is 25–32 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August in western Europe and North America.
The larvae feed on various shrubs and herbaceous plants, including Vaccinium
species such as Vaccinium myrtillus
and Vaccinium uliginosum
as well as Aster tripolium
, Alnus and Salix.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Geometridae family. It is found in both the Palearctic ecozone and the Nearctic ecozone. It has also been reported from India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 25–32 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August in western Europe and North America.
The larvae feed on various shrubs and herbaceous plants, including Vaccinium
Vaccinium
Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae. The fruit of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, lingonberry or cowberry, and huckleberry...
species such as Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus is an almost Holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit, usually simply referred to as "bilberry" or "whortleberry". It is more precidely called Common Bilberry or Blue Whortleberry, to distinguish it from its Vaccinium relatives...
and Vaccinium uliginosum
Vaccinium uliginosum
Vaccinium uliginosum is a flowering plant in the genus Vaccinium.-Distribution:Vaccinium uliginosum is native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, at low altitudes in the Arctic, and at high altitudes south to the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Caucasus in Europe, the mountains of...
as well as Aster tripolium
Aster tripolium
Aster tripolium is a plant of northern Europe that is confined in its distribution to salt marshes, estuaries and occasionally to inland salt works....
, Alnus and Salix.
Subspecies
- Dysstroma citrata citrata
- Dysstroma citrata katshadalarium Beljaev & Vasilenko, 2002 (Magadan, Kamchatka, Komandor Island, northern Kurils)
- Dysstroma citrata nyiwonis (Matsumura, 1925)
- Dysstroma citrata glacialis (Hulst, 1898)