Falcaria lacertinaria
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Genus: | Falcaria |
| Species: | F. lacertinaria
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Falcaria lacertinaria, the scalloped hook-tip, is a moth of the family Drepanidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae[1] It is found in Europe and Anatolia then east to Eastern Siberia.
Description[edit]
The wingspan is 27–35 mm. The forewings are ochreous,mixed and strigulated with dark fuscous. The veins are darker . The first and second lines are dark fuscous, nearly straight and parallel.There is a black discal dot and the wing apex is suffused with ochreous-brown. The termen is irregularly dentate. The cilia are blackish, spotted with white.The hind wings are whitish- ochreous, fuscous -sprinkled and posteriorly brownish -tinged with a faint grey postmedian line and a dark fuscous discal dot.The larva is ochreous-brown, darker marked. The dorsal line is anteriorly pale, dark-edged, posteriorly dark and interrupted. There are two blackish dorsal marks on segment 6, preceded by a pale area and pairs of tubercular prominences on 3, 4, and 12.[2] The first generation may be more silvery-grey, the second generation smaller and lighter brown.
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Biology[edit]
The moth flies from April to August in two generations depending on the location.
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The larvae feed on birch and alder.
References[edit]
- ^ "65.001 BF1645 Scalloped Hook-tip Falcaria lacertinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)". UKMoths. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
External links[edit]
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepidoptera of Belgium Archived 2016-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Vlindernet.nl (in Dutch)
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