Cyclophora linearia

Cyclophora linearia, the clay triple-lines, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1799 and it can be found in Europe and (primarily in the southern half) Britain.

Figs. 7, 7a, 7b Larvae in various stages

Cyclophora linearia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Cyclophora
Species:
C. linearia
Binomial name
Cyclophora linearia
(Hübner, 1799)[1]
Synonyms
  • Geometra linearia Hubner, 1799
  • Phalaena trilinearia Borkhausen, 1794
  • Phalaena luteolaria Villers, 1789
  • Ephyra strabonaria Zeller, 1851

Description

The wingspan is 26–33 mm. The basic colour of the wings is pale brown to orange in the first generation and rose red in the second generation. On the forewing are three crosslines, black to reddish in colour, the middle is wider. The crosslines are often vague in the second generation.[2] describes some aberrations. The egg is elongate-oval, with fine hexagonal or rather irregularly polygonal ribbing; pale yellow, becoming marked with red. The larva is slender and naked, pale green, with small, yellow spots on the dorsum.

Biology

The moths fly from May to July depending on the location.

The larvae feed on beech.

Similar species

Cyclophora linearia is difficult to certainly distinguish from these congeners. See Townsend et al.[3]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Cyclophora linearia (Hubner 1799)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.pdf
  3. Martin C. Townsend, Jon Clifton and Brian Goodey (2010). British and Irish Moths: An Illustrated Guide to Selected Difficult Species. (covering the use of genitalia characters and other features) Butterfly Conservation.


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